Teaching Pascali's Island | Daily Lessons

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: Fate/destiny. From the beginning, as Pascali describes his first reactions to the newcomer and his feeling that their destinies are entwined, the novel foreshadows the development of a precarious relationship between these characters. The objective of this lesson is to learn about fate/destiny.

1) 1. Class discussion. Let's talk about fate. What does it mean? What is it? Can you think of an example of it...
(read more)