Daily Lessons for Teaching The Dead and the Gone

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: Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of "The Dead and the Gone." The objective of this lesson is to discuss Pfeffer and her writing.

1) 1) Research: read biographical information about Pfeffer. Write the answers to these questions: When and where was Pfeffer born? When did she decide she wanted to be a writer? What was her first writing project? When did she publish her first...
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