Daily Lessons for Teaching The Warrior Heir

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: Prologue: Old Stories Lee comes home to find his father and brother dead, his mother immobile, and his sister hiding. This sets up a premise for the novel that will be important as the plot develops. The objective of this lesson is to focus on plot conflict.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Lee comes home to the family farm to discover that the Roses have...
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