Teaching The Great Fire | 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: The book opens with a lengthy description about a photograph. This particular description gives the reader an idea of what is to come, as well as speaks about the author's writing style and the main character's personality. The objective of this lesson is to understand the importance of the description in the first chapter.

1) 1. Group Discussion: The author uses a lot of description with...
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