Humble Teacher's Discussion Guide

By Sherry Schwarcz

This novel guide was written to accompany the novel HUMBLE, by Sherry Schwarcz. This is the 23 years experience, has written this teaching guide complete with vocabulary, discussion questions, writing topics, and projects. This guide is for teachers in a home school or for classroom teachers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sherry Schwarcz
• Release date: Nov 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215335352

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 Humble. As a former middle school teacher with over 23 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, Civile Rights, Spiritual Journeys, Witnessing, Confessions

Literary Devices: irony, characterization, allusion, prediction, foil, eulogy

Pre-reading Discussion:

Teaching Suggestions: Research the First Amendment and the five freedoms contained there. Also look into the concept of Separation of Church and State. Have a good understanding of what they mean before reading.

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 narrator for each page. They can end at of a full