Teaching The Secret Garden | 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, "There's No One Left" Mary is seen as an incredibly disagreeable child even though she comes from a wealthy family. The object of this lesson will be to explore some of the things that may have caused her to be this way, and to find some modern parallels with the student's lives.

1) 1) Read aloud with the class the description of Mary being...
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