Joshua Williamson's List: lightning thief

A full and complete book on how to teach Lightening Thief with author's notes and ideas

In this lesson, students use the Visual Thesaurus to help them categorize words from the first chapter of The Lightning Thief —as a means to predict the novel's central topics and themes. Then, after reading the chapter, students analyze those same words in the context of the novel and conduct further research into the mythological references that run throughout the text.

Using Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe the scene so that it sounds as though it is a description of an event by a friend. Writers will carefully select appropriate words to make the reader feel as though they are a part of the scene.

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