Daily Lessons for Teaching Paris to the Moon

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: (Paris to the Moon) This book is written as an autobiographical work by Adam Gopnik, based on articles he wrote about for the New Yorker about his stay in Paris with his family from 1995-2000. The object of this lesson is to introduce and discuss the author of "Paris to the Moon".

1) 1. In class research: After a brief introduction of the...
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