Teaching Night Probe! | 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: The Prologue of the novel provides the back-story that tells the history behind the events that occur in the main story. The events in this section take place in 1914, seventy-five years before the main story begins. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the back-story.

1) 1) Research: Look up the term back-story and write a definition. Write the answers to these questions: How...
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