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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 Breach. The narrator of this story ends up being a primary character. The objective of this lesson is to meet the narrator.

1) 1. Class Discussion: How does the story open? Who is the narrator? What is he doing? Where is he from? Where is he now? What bond does he have with the cashier? How are the two men similar?

2. Written Assignment:...
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