Teaching The Miserable Mill | 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: In Chapter 1, Mr. Poe drops the children off in Paltryville and leaves them alone. The objective of this lesson is to examine the reasons Mr. Poe left the children and what he might have done instead. Also, we'll examine the topic of abandonment in life in general.

1) Class Discussion 1:

What type of person is Mr. Poe and how does that influence his actions,...
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