Teaching Letters from Rifka | 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: September 2 - February 25 This novel is in the historical fiction genre. The objective of this lesson is to understand historical fiction.

1) Lead the class in a discussion of historical fiction. Have the students compare and contrast the real life of Rifka and her family with that of people who actually lived during this period of immigration from Russia to America. What similarities...
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