Teaching The Shadow Rising | 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 SHADOW RISING is categorized as fantasy, a genre of fiction. The objective of this lesson is to look at genre in literature.

1) 1. Homework. Have the students research the genre of fantasy writing a short paper on it. They may answer questions such as: who were early authors such as Tolkien. How did they influence fiction during their era? How has the fantasy genre...
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