Daily Lessons for Teaching The Red Pony

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 setting of _The Red Pony_ plays an important role throughout the text. The objective of this lesson is to examine the setting of _The Red Pony_.

1) 1) Begin class with a focusing exercise. Have students write for 5 minutes in response to the following prompt: "What five things do you know about the setting thus far for _The Red Pony_?" Collect their responses....
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