Daily Lessons for Teaching Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

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: Introduction to the Author Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (born 14 April 1935) is a Swiss author best known for his controversial inquiry of extraterrestrial influences on early human culture. The foremost of these, Chariots of the Gods, was published in 1968 and is the subject of this lesson plan. In today's class, students are introduced to Von Däniken, his focus of theory, and the controversies surrounding...
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