Daily Lessons for Teaching The Guest

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 students will be able to make extensions of topics based on information read.

1) Possible Activities:
* Throughout this story, isolation is discussed in detail. Have the students work in small groups of three or four and extend this topic of isolation into real life situations they have experienced. Have the students make connections between the text and their own personal lives. The information...
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