Daily Lessons for Teaching The Silver Chair

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 objective of this lesson is to explore the topic of bullying, both in chapter one and in life, in general.

1) Class Discussion 1:

What things make a person an easy target for bullies? Does Jill seem to possess any of those qualities at first glance? If so, which ones? If not, why was she bullied?

Class Discussion 2:
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