Daily Lessons for Teaching Outliers: The Story of Success

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: Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1999 and has written four books. The objective of this lesson is to look at Malcolm Gladwell.

1) 1. Homework. Students will research Malcolm Gladwell and write a paper on his life especially as it relates to this book, but including other aspects of his life.

2. Class discussion. How...
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