Daily Lessons for Teaching Olive's Ocean

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: Chapters 1 through 13 The primary setting for the book is a beach town on Cape Cod near the Atlantic Ocean. The objective of this lesson is to explore the local color of a coastal area town and its impact on its residents.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What does the author reveal about life in a beach town in this book? What image does...
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