Daily Lessons for Teaching Manhattan Transfer

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: Chapter 1, Ferryslip The author describes people pressing through the ferry house tunnel as "crushed and jostling like apples fed down a chute into a press". This lesson is on Simile.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is Simile? What does the author mean by the people being "crushed and jostling like apples fed down a chute into a press"?

2) Journal: ...
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