Teaching Nights of Rain and Stars | 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 Nights of Rain and Stars takes place in Greece in a small village. The setting of the novel is critical to the story. This lesson will focus on the setting and the atmosphere in which the novel will take place.

1) 1. Geography Exercise: Locate Greece on a map of Europe. Find Aghia Anna on the map. List the natural and geographic resources that define...
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