Teaching Stuck in Neutral | 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: Chapter 1 At the very outset of the book, one of the first things you notice about Shawn is his humor and optimism. Shawn says the good news is he is a genius and the bad news he is retarded. The objective of this lesson is to explore Shawn's personality the at the beginning of the novel and how it shapes our expectations for the development of...
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