Teaching Reviving Ophelia | 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 1, Saplings in the Storm The students will be able to identify the main idea of a section/chapter/novel.

1) Possible Activities:
* Have the students hold a class discussion to determine what they believe is the main idea of this chapter (that young adolescent girls have a specific and unique set of issues from their male counterparts).
* Have the students work in pairs to develop...
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