Teaching Whirligig | 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, Party Time As the story opens, a glimpse of Brent Bishop's family dynamics is given. The objective of this lesson is to focus on the superficial home life that surrounds Brent.

1) 1) Class Discussion: After Brent is called to dinner, he arrives downstairs to find his parents already at the kitchen table. His father is watching the evening news while eating. How does Brent...
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