Teaching The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus | 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: Section 1, Uncle Remus, His Songs and Stories, 1 through 11 The student will be able to explain the rationale for Joel Chandler Harris's transcription of the Uncle Remus Tales.

1) 1. Students will take notes on the teacher's lecture including the following: (1) The book is not a book written for children. (2) Harris was interested in writing down phonetically the dialects of...
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