Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | 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: Christopher tells the mystery of Wellington's death and the story about the emotional faces from his point of view. Because this is a mystery novel, we know that there are gaps of information that are missing. The objective of this lesson is to discover the importance of viewpoint in text.

1) 1. Discussion: Why does Christopher only tell the story from his point of view? What...
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