Daily Lessons for Teaching Leaves of Grass

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: There have been many poets who seem to have a loving relationship with the sea and with all of its wonders. Today's objective is to discuss the power of the sea and the beauty it has to offer to those who experience.

1) 1. Have each student make a list of the various waters and seas they have visited in their own lives.

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