Daily Lessons for Teaching Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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 1 Chapter 1 | Part 1 Chapter 2 The student will take notes on Jules Verne and the novel, TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. The student will organize a picture of the background for the novel.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Teacher presents a background of Jules Verne as a writer/researcher and early science fiction author. The background of the story involves the Nautilus, a...
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