Daily Lessons for Teaching A Discourse on Inequality

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: Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I Rousseau questions in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" if the arts and sciences corrupted morality or purified it. He feels it is important to treat this subject properly and must acknowledge mankind entering a new period of thinking. This lesson...
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