Daily Lessons for Teaching The Death of Superman

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 Death of Superman is a graphic novel featuring several editions of separately published works. This lesson is about the concept of a graphic novel, how it is compares to other forms of literature, and why it was chosen to present this chapter in the Superman saga.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is a graphic novel? How many individual issues of comic books are usually...
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