Teaching The Lovely Bones | 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: Chapter 1 The events of Chapter 1 immediately set a serious and somber tone for the novel. The objective of this lesson is to facilitate a class discussion around a very sensitive topic about the major event of the first chapter: a child's rape and murder.

1) 1) Writing Activity: Begin class with a focusing exercise. Have students write for five minutes in response to the following...
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