Daily Lessons for Teaching Ronin

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 story of Ronin opens with a diary entry from Casey McKenna. The document is written simply and poetically. She speaks of something known as the "Hour of the Wolf." The date of the entry is marked as unknown. The phrase "Monsters rule the Earth" is repeated several times throughout the entry's two pages. There is also mention of women and demons. The objective of this...
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