Teaching The Daughter of 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: In the beginning of this chapter, and throughout, the main character is confined to a hospital bed, and to keep his mind occupied, he argues against the sympathetic portrayal of Queen Mary of the Scots in historical texts. The object of this lesson is to understand the motivations of royalty.

1) 1) Break the class into groups of three or four and research royalty from...
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