Daily Lessons for Teaching Democracy in America

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: Volume 1, Chapters 1-5: De Tocqueville focuses on the differences between an aristocracy and a democracy. This lesson will focus on what types of government are "available" to choose from and explores the differences between them.

1) 1. As each person enters the class, give them a seat based on when they enter class. The people who enter class first get to sit in chairs;...
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