Teaching Night | 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: Chapter 1 (Pages 1-20) This is a pre-reading activity. Night describes author Elie Wiesel's experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Knowledge of the Holocaust will help to put the enormity and inhumanity of this event into perspective. The objective of this lesson is to learn about the Holocaust.

1) Tasks, Ideas, Challenges, and Homework

1) Individual: Have the students write what they know about the...
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