Teaching Rumble Fish | 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: Frame Story "Rumble Fish" is a frame story. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the frame story's structure in "Rumble Fish."

1) 1. Class Discussion: What is a frame story? How is this an effective means of telling the story? What is the author's purpose for using a frame story? What other structures could the author have used?

2. Class Debate: Divide the class...
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