Daily Lessons for Teaching The Blind Side

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, Back Story OFFENSIVE LINEMEN - In this chapter, the author goes into great detail about the role of offensive linemen in a football game. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the role of the offensive linemen in a football game, and to discuss why they are important to this story.

1) 1.) As a class, create a list of adjectives used...
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