Teaching Surfacing | 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: Students will consider characterization of the narrator and other characters in the text.

1) 1) As a whole group, students will brainstorm adjectives that describe the main character based on first chapter revelations. Next, students will attempt to determine what characterization techniques revealed these traits.

2) In small groups, students will choose what they feel to be the most important...
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