Teaching Chapterhouse: Dune | 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: One of Frank Herbert's main tasks in writing this novel was to create a new world with its own rules, motivations, and goals. This task is similar in every work of science fiction, although each writer works through it in his or her own way. The objective of this lesson is to explore what we learn about the Dune universe in this section, including...
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