Every classroom has its own strengths and challenges, but All Creatures Great and Small features some fairly graphic descriptions of animal anatomy, as well as covering sensitive topics like poverty and privilege. You may want to pick and choose the lesson material you feel your class is best-equipped to handle and make some time and space for early reactions to anatomical descriptions.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving their written expression, teachers...