Daily Lessons for Teaching The Reckoning

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: Chapters 1, Evesham Abby, England, January 1271- 3, Siena, Tuscany, March 1271 The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman is a fictional account of the royal houses of Wales and England between the years of 1271 and 1283. Fiction means the story is either wholly or partially not factual - it is made up by the author. The objective of this lesson is to clarify that The Reckoning...
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