Daily Lessons for Teaching Stay

Catherine Ryan Hyde
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Daily Lessons for Teaching Stay

Catherine Ryan Hyde
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 161 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-3)

Objective

The objective of this lesson is to examine the opening passages of the novel and consider the various tools the author uses to establish the narrator -- Lucas's -- voice.

For this first lesson, students will not yet have begun the novel. This is an excellent time to have them perform a close reading of a passage since they have not yet developed any opinions about the characters, the plot, or the setting. In particular, they might focus on the first-person narrator's voice and how the author uses diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax to establish it.

Lesson

Small Group Discussion: Divide students into small groups and have them read through together the first few paragraphs of the novel on Page 3. Ask them to come up with a list of five words or short phrases to describe the narrator. Once they have made this list, they...

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