Teaching The Winter Room | 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: Tuning and Spring In "Tuning," the author talks about the importance of the senses, including smell, sight, and sound. The objective of this lesson is to make students more aware of the five senses and of their importance.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Have students name the five senses. Ask why the author listed only three.

2) Homework: Have students write an addition to...
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