Daily Lessons for Teaching Pigs in Heaven

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 | Chapter 2 ALICE - In this chapter, the reader is introduced to Alice, the protagonist of the novel, and is given insight into her various relationships. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the character of Alice based on their first impressions of her, and to discuss the way that Alice's relationships may become central in the themes of this novel.