Teaching Waterland | 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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 The objective of the lesson is to acquaint students with the basic characters of the book, to determine what the relationships between them are, to understand the unusual chronology of the book, and to gain an understanding of its conversational narration. Furthermore, the students will learn some background information about the author of the book and about the Fenlands where it is...
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