Daily Lessons for Teaching The Magician's Nephew

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: * To explore one of the settings of this novel * To learn something about the background of the author * To use the events for a creative writing exercise

1) 1. The first setting presented in The Magician's Nephew is Victorian London, England. In small groups, students brainstorm what they know about life in Victorian London. Present the findings to the main...
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