Daily Lessons for Teaching McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

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: Rituals--To explore rituals and how they calm and create structure in our lives, as Mr. McTeague does during his Sunday ritual.

1) 1) Divide the class in to groups of three our four and have each group come up with three or four (per student) weekend rituals that the students enjoy to relax and calm themselves. Have the students write a page description...
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