Teaching Winterdance | 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: Prelude In the Prelude, Gary finds himself in life-or-death circumstances. He writes, "I could take the pad and sleeping bag and food out of the sled and drag them back into the hole and make a shelter and live through it. It would be all right." Gary fights to survive the storm with the help of items from his sled. This lesson addresses the concept of Survival.