Daily Lessons for Teaching The Beak of the Finch

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: Part 1, Chapter 1. As the book opens, Weiner puts a great deal of effort into describing the setting of Daphne Major. This description allows the reader to gain a mental image of the methodology and scope of the Grants' research, and it provides a starting point to begin to understand the Grants' findings. The objective of this lesson is to examine...
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