Daily Lessons for Teaching The Thirteenth Tale

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: Part One, Beginnings: The Letter, Margaret's Story, and Thirteen Tales In the chapter "Margaret's Story," Margaret talks at length about the power of books to anger, motivate, comfort, or heal. The objective of this lesson is to motivate students to appreciate the power of words and the value of reading in general, and this book in specific.

1) 1. Margaret says that books have power to change...
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