Teaching The Sea | 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 narrator shifts between past and present in a very poetic way. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the effectiveness of this technique.

1) 1) Writing assignment: In their journals, students should respond to the following prompt: What makes reading this novel most difficult for you? Why? Students should have an opportunity to share their responses with the class. (read more)