Daily Lessons for Teaching Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

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, My Enemy | The Territory, These Curious People Rudy Salas, Sr. feels a strong hatred against white people, and specifically, towards white policemen. He has several issues in life which includes racism and injustices. The objective of this lesson is to analyze Rudy Salas' feelings, and how, as a minority, he feels superior compared to others, which might not be the usual case.

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