Teaching Z for Zachariah | 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: Chapters 1-2 This book is set in a remote valley in Pennsylvania in the United States sometime after the Bay of Pigs. The exact location of the valley is never given. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1) Homework: Students will rewrite the basic plot of Z for Zachariah and set it in another century, explaining how the different setting...
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