Teaching Watership Down | 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: Two of the book's major characters, Hazel and Fiver, are introduced in this chapter. The aim of this lesson is to examine the characters of Hazel and Fiver.

1) 1) Class discussion. In what way do Hazel and Fiver complement each other? Do the students think Hazel relies more on Fiver than Fiver relies on Hazel? Why does Hazel put so much trust in Fiver's visions?...
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