Daily Lessons for Teaching American Psycho

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: The scene in which Price teases the homeless man with money seems to set a dark tone to the book as a whole. Today's objective is to discuss this scene with the homeless man and what it seems to say about the people in this novel.

1) 1. Have each student make a list of all of the reasons why the homeless man might be...
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