Teaching Skeleton Man | 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: Voice. Hillerman quickly establishes Joe Leaphorn as the voice of his new tale and treats the reader to a taste of Navajo legend, lore, and customs that enliven most of his works, placing them a notch above the average mystery. The objective of this lesson is to look at voice.

1) 1. Class discussion. In class discuss voice and the role it plays in fiction....
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