Daily Lessons for Teaching Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

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 Chapter 1 - Joseph Binbin Mauvant, begins with a fictitious story about Joseph Binbin Mauvant. This lesson will discuss the events in this chapter.

1) Class Discussion: Describe the events in this chapter.

Small Group Activity: Choose one of the characters from this chapter for whom to create a KWL chart.

Class Discussion: Discuss the students' KWL charts and create a class KWL...
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