Teaching The Amber Spyglass | 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 Amber Spyglass is the third book in the "His Dark Materials" series. The objective of this lesson is to look at series books and the reasons for them.

1) 1) Discussion: Is it necessary that the reader have read the other two books in this series in order to make sense of the story line? Explain.
2) Classwork: Could there easily be a fourth...
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