Teaching Tex | 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: The students will be able to identify important relationships in novels.

1) Possible Activities:

* Have the students work together in pairs to discuss Mason and Tex's relationship as it has been revealed to us so far by the author. Have each pair share out to the whole class.
* Have the students compare their relationship with a sibling to that of Mason...
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