Teaching A Lesson before Dying | 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: When the unnamed narrator talks about how he did not go to the trial, he also says that he knew the verdict before the jury even decided. Today's objective is to discuss the value of experiencing something versus not doing something because you expect it to be a certain way.

1) 1. Have each student share with the class whether or not they would have gone...
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