Daily Lessons for Teaching American Gods

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: When AMERICAN GODS begins, Shadow Moon, the protagonist, has a clear objective: to get out of prison and see his wife. By the middle of the first chapter, this objective has been denied him, and he is left in a state of objective-free limbo. The purpose of this lesson is to examine Shadow as a protagonist without an objective.

1) 1. For class discussion: As a...
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