Teaching The Sicilian | 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: Chapters 1-2 Foreshadowing is a technique used in order to help readers predict what may happen in the future for certain characters in a story. This method is used in "The Sicilian" during the first chapter when readers learn of Michael Corelone's orders to help Turi Guilano, a bandit of Sicily, escape to America. The objective of this lesson is to learn how foreshadowing is used in...
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