Teaching Tehanu | 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: This book is written in third person. This lesson will discuss why the author chose this style of storytelling.

1) 1. Partner Project: Read through the first two chapters. Discuss the writing style and point of view.

2. Small Group Project: Re-write one of the longer paragraphs in the first two chapters using first person. Compare this paragraph to the original and discuss why the...
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