Daily Lessons for Teaching The Stone Diaries

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: Chapter one chronicles Daisy's unusual parents and birth. The objective of this lesson is to examine and discuss the circumstances of Daisy's birth and how they may impact the story later on. Also, to examine how loss of a parent can impact a person, in general.

1) Class Discussion 1:

How might losing her mother affect Daisy, as the story progresses?

Class Discussion 2: (read more)