Teaching Seeds of Yesterday | 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: Book One, Foxworth Hall, Joel Foxworth, and Memories Foreshadowing plays a large role in this novel. For example, Joel is an example of foreshadowing in that he reminds Catherine of her mean grandfather. Another instance of foreshadowing is Bart inheriting the mansion in which Catherine and Chris were terrified as children. This lesson will focus on the role of foreshadowing as it is present in characters and...
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