Daily Lessons for Teaching The Pale King

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 Chapters 1 through 8, only Claude and Reynolds are characters that appear in more than one chapter. Two of the chapters even feature characters who are unnamed. The objective of this lesson is to explore the influence of such disconnected developing plots.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Which characters are introduced in the first eight chapters? Who is Claude? In which chapters does Claude appear?...
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