Daily Lessons for Teaching Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories

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: Pages 1-55 Mazie Gordon is a benevolent woman who works at the movie theater that she owns with her sister. She often would give the poor free tickets to the theater if they agree to clean up. Mazie would walk the streets in the evening to pass out food and soap to those who could not afford it. She cited nuns as being the most benevolent force,...
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