Teaching The White Hotel | 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: In the Prologue, the book opens with a series of letters, especially by historical figures, that grant a sense of reality to the story. This lesson will discuss this opening.

1) Class Discussion: How does the book open? What other books can you think of that open in a similar fashion?

Small Group Activity: From whom are the letters? Research these historical...
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