Teaching The Yearling | 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: SETTING - In this opening chapter, the woods are established as the setting of the story. Not only does the audience get a feel for the woods surrounding the Baxter home, they also begin to realize the relationship that the three main characters have to their setting. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore the idea of the wooded setting and to discuss...
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