Teaching Atlas Shrugged | 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: The student will explain how a simple question such as "Who is John Galt?" is a literary device to hold the attention of the reader. The student will describe the conditions in New York under a communistic regime at the beginning of the novel.

1) 1. Teacher led discussion of the opposing ideologies in ATLAS SHRUGGED (i.e., giving everything over to a central power to distribute...
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