Teaching Personal History | 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: The family from which Kay came played an important role in her development and in her views of the world. Today's objective is to talk about the idea of family and how it can influence a person - for better or for worse.

1) 1. Have students make a list of the people who are in their immediate family or who they grew up with. (read more)