Teaching The Pigman | 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: Chapter One. The main characters are introduced in this chapter. The objective of this lesson is to understand who the main characters are and what mission they undertake.

1) 1. Class Discussion: Who is John? Who is Lorraine? Where do they live? Where do they go to school? What grade are they in? What have they set out to do? Who are they writing about? Why? What...
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