Teaching Seize the Day | 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: In the very first paragraph of the book, we learn that "when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels." Much of the first chapter focuses on the ways in which the main character, Wilhelm, is able to hide his true feelings from the other characters. This lesson will focus...
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