Daily Lessons for Teaching Brave New World

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 students will be able to define and provide examples of the genre of writing of dystopia.

1) Possible Activities:

* Provide the definition of a dystopia (an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror ~dictionary.com). Ask the students to brainstorm why an author would choose to use this type of...
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