Teaching Something Wicked This Way Comes | 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: Bradbury sets the scene of the novel with a prologue. The aim of this lesson is to examine prologues.

1) 1) Ask the students to answer the following questions in essay format. What is the point of a prologue? What kind of stories use a prologue and why? What information does Bradbury's prologue include that the reader needs to know?

2) Ask the students to write...
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