Teaching Look Homeward, Angel | 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 part this is the story of how an immigrant's family grows into and American family. The objective is to give students a better knowledge of the important history immigrants have made in this nation.

1) - As a class discuss how this is primarily a nation of immigrants with a rather brief national history.
- As a class prepare a timeline to show our nation's...
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