Daily Lessons for Teaching The Gate of Angels

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: Part 1, Section 1 As the book begins, the narrator describes the road to Cambridge. The wind is unusually strong. It is leaving willow branches scattered on the road and on cows' horns. The objective of this lesson is to discuss how the university as the center of knowledge contrasts with the opening storm scene.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is the...
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