Daily Lessons for Teaching On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

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 This book is an autobiographical book. The objective of this lesson will be to review some major aspects of Rose and Laura Wilder's life, and to discuss how having this book autobiographical affects the plot and the feeling of the book.

1) 1) Life Review of Author: Provide a brief overview of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life along with some of the major events in...
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