Daily Lessons for Teaching I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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: Students will consider the author's development of dramatic irony in the Introduction.

1) 1) As a whole class, students create a short list of ideas that contribute to dramatic irony in the Introduction. Reviewing the list, students will discuss the ideas and their possible significance to upcoming events in the text.

2) In small groups, students will discuss any example of...
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