Teaching L.A. Requiem | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In the book's first chapters, several situations are presented, including the relationships between Pike and Cole, Cole and Lucy, and Pike and Karen, as well as Karen's disappearance. The objective of this lesson is to use predictions to determine what might happen as the story progresses.

1) 1) Small group activity: Divide the class into small groups of three to four students. Each group should identify...
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