Teaching Tuck Everlasting | 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: The objective of this lesson is to make students aware of beginnings and endings.

1) For class discussion: Ask students to define "prologue" and "epilogue." What kinds of information might be found in the prologue and epilogue of a story?

For class work: Have students break off into small groups. Each group should find as many words for "prologue" and "epilogue" as possible. Encourage creativity....
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