Daily Lessons for Teaching The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

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 Claiming of Sleeping Beauty-At the beginning of the book, it appears that this is a typical fairytale of a princess in need of a prince to rescue her. However, after a few pages it becomes clear that this is not a normal fairytale, but rather it is an exotic tale of a helpless princess. This lesson will discuss the use of fairytale scenery...
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