Daily Lessons for Teaching Memed, My Hawk

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: Memed is introduced as a young boy who is running away from home. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the early characterization of Memed.

1) 1) Class discussion: What is Memed doing in the beginning of this novel? Where is he running? What is the scenery like where he is running? How does he feel about his surroundings? ...
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