Daily Lessons for Teaching Rifles for Watie

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: In the beginning of Chapter 1 Jeff is plowing and remembering. The author uses the character's remembering to show the reader information. The objective of this lesson is to be aware of the importance of remembering.

1) 1) Discussion: Have the class discuss what the word "remember" means. Have the students speculate on why some memories are kept, even though they don't seem important, while the...
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