Teaching The Monkey's Paw | 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: Section 1 This book is a short story and fits in the short story genre. The objectives of this lesson will be to discuss this unique genre of literature and to discuss some of the reasons why this genre would have been so appealing for the author to use to tell this story.

1) 1) Genre Introduction Activity: Prepare a short lesson to introduce the genre...
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