Teaching Strata | 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: Pages 1-27 In the 1940's, Joseph Campbell wrote about archetypes in stories, various types of events and characters that appear over and over again in literature and stories of all kinds, because they are effective and interesting, and because people can relate easily to them. One of these archetypes is the "Call to Adventure," when the protagonist is presented with a challenge or quest that must be...
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