Teaching Sourcery | 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: Page 1-53 The opening of the book begins with the story of the eighth son of the eighth son of a wizard becoming a sourcerer. The objective is to decipher the genre of the story. Fantasy encompasses novels which deal with the fantastical: faraway places, mystical lands, and fictional creatures. Most fantasy novels contain elements of magic.

1) 1. Class Discussion: What does genre mean? What are...
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