Daily Lessons for Teaching The Thistle and the Rose

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 Betrothed, The Bridegroom, and The Rose and the Thistle The author of "The Rose and the Thistle," Jean Plaidy, is one of the more prolific writers of the twentieth century. The objective of this lesson is to learn more about Jean Plaidy as the author of the text.

1) 1) Have students write for ten minutes in response to the following prompt: "Why is knowing information...
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