Teaching A Canticle for Leibowitz | 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: A Canticle for Leibowitz takes the reader into a future perspective, looking back on the past from a different point of view. The objective of this lesson is for students to understand how perspective can change people's interpretation of events.

1) 1) Discuss with the class Brother Francis' interpretation of the fallout shelter that he finds. Why does he misinterpret the sign? Why does he misunderstand...
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