Teaching The Neverending Story | 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: In the prologue, bullying is a major issue. Bastian hides from schoolmates who want to tease him. The objective of this lesson is to examine the issue of bullying. What makes a person a bully? How can bullies be dealt with?

1) Class discussion:

What could make a person a bully? Also, is it right to try to hide from...
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