Teaching Skeleton Crew | 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: Introduction (Instructors, please note that there will be one Public Speaking part to most daily lessons. It can be assigned to a particular student in advance or left to a volunteer basis.) Stephen King's introduction is curious and slightly rambling. He bases the entire introduction on a an interesting conversation with a friend. The objective of this lesson is to examine King's method and what...
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