Teaching Maniac Magee | 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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 Chapter 1 and 2 introduces the main character as a boy with a normal beginning until he is three years old when his parents are killed in a car crash. Then some strange events happen with his aunt and uncle and he ends up running away. From there, the boy's life becomes a myth; because of this, the novel involves magical realism....
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