Teaching The Ants | 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 The Importance of Ants MOTIVATION - In this chapter, the authors address their audience directly, discussing their motivations in writing the book, The Ants. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore both the motivations of the authors who penned the novel, and the motivations of the audience who pick up the book and read it.

1) 1) As a class, create a...
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