Teaching The Reader | 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: Part 1, Chapter 1 | Part 1, Chapter 2 In these chapters, the narrator recalls his first experience with the woman who "rescued" him when he got sick in the street. The woman showed him compassion, which the first lesson will discuss.

1) 1) Writing assignment, "Good Samaritan experience:" Each student will write a short essay about a time when they were shown compassion from a person...
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