Teaching The Bad Beginning | 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 author takes time in the first chapter to give details about all three of the Baudelaire children and what their traits are. The objective of this lesson is to look at the importance of introducing the main characters.

1) 1) Discussion: What is it about the Baudelaires' traits and idiosyncrasies that makes them believable as characters, if anything?
2) Classwork: Give students a list...
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