Daily Lessons for Teaching My Sister's Keeper

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: Prologue and Monday | Anna | Campbell Realistic fiction reflects the society that creates it. An author explores prevailing social issues in realistic fiction, which is part reality and part fantasy. The objective of this lesson is to learn about My Sister's Keeper as a piece of realistic fiction.

1) TASKS:

1) Class Discussion: What makes fiction realistic? What issues are introduced in these pages?...
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