Daily Lessons for Teaching The Book Thief

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: Prologue, A Mountain Range of Rubble, and Part One, The Grave Digger's Handbook NARRATION - In this chapter, the reader is introduced to the narrator of the story. It becomes increasingly clear that the narrator is Death, even though this fact is not explicitly stated. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the character of the narrator, and discuss why Death might be narrating...
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