Daily Lessons for Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth

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: Chapter 1, Milo The story is written in a limited view. The objective of this lesson is to make students aware of the various perspectives used in literature.

1) 1. Class Discussion: Ask students for definitions of "omniscient" and "limited" as it pertains to literature. Explain that this story is limited to some degree by the fact that only those things Milo experiences is included. Ask students...
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