Teaching Mort | 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: MORT could easily be described as a humorous book. The objective of this lesson is to look at the different types of literature.

1) 1) Discussion: Do you agree that MORT could be called a humorous book? What about the book early on leads you to this conclusion?
2) Classwork: Have the students list off five different places in the story in which the author...
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