Teaching Desert Solitaire | 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: Chapter 1 The First Morning The objective of this lesson is to consider whether we have a heightened sense of reality upon first waking in the morning. Edward Abbey awakes in a new place devoid of anything familiar to him.

1) 1. If possible, darken the classroom totally, and ask the students to get comfortable and sit silently for ten full minutes. Try to avoid...
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