Confess: A Teacher's Guide for Instruction

By Sherry Schwarcz

This novel guide for CONFESS is complete with vocabulary, discussion questions, writing topics, and projects and is for teachers in a home school situation or for whole class instruction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sherry Schwarcz
• Release date: Jan 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310291104

Sherry Schwarcz

Sherry Schwarcz presently lives in Austria with her diplomat husband. She holds a BS in Secondary Education from UNLV and a MA English from CSUH. For over 18 years, Sherry taught teens in the United States and Germany. She presently teaches online while raising two rare Taigan sighthounds when she isn't writing. Sherry blogs about her dog at www.dashadiary.weebly.com, which has hosted hundreds of curious visitors.After a sermon when the pastor asked congregants what they would do if they knew they couldn't fail because it was for the glory of God, Confess was conceived and drawn from experience. Intrigued by the secular and Christian definitions of confession, witness, and testify, Sherry has written a teaching guide to accompany the novel complete with vocabulary, discussion topics and final projects. She has also compiled a 40-day Bible study based on the leading Bible passages at the beginning of each chapter.

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I wrote this novel guide to accompany Confess. As a former middle school teacher with over 18 years experience, I couldn’t help but look at my work with an English teacher’s eyes. Whether teaching in a home school situation or with through whole class instruction, this guide has suggestions for literary instructions.

Themes: Bullying, Acceptance/Fitting In, Spiritual Journeys, Witnessing, Confessions

Literary Devices: Onomatopoeia, similes, symbolism, flashback, irony, characterization

Pre-reading Discussion:

Teaching Suggestions: Discuss the dual meanings of the terms: confession, testimony, witness. What do they mean in the legal profession? What do they mean to Christians?

Reading Suggestions

Reading in Small Groups—Have students take turns reading sections at a time.

Reading Whole Class—The story contains a lot of dialogue, so they could read it as a kind of Readers Theater. For example, in Chapter 3, there is dialogue for Principal Black, Mrs. Arroway, Bertha, a boy, a girl and a remaining boy. The students could volunteer to read the dialogue in quotation marks only. You can also select a narrator to read everything NOT in quotation marks. To get several narrators and more opportunities to read aloud, assign a