Teaching Digital Fortress | 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: Prologue - Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 - 6. The NSA is one of the government's intelligence agencies whose purpose is to ensure the safety of United States government communications and to monitor the communications of other entities. The NSA breaks encrypted codes and has a powerful supercomputer called TRANSLTR to perform this function. The opening chapters introduce the main characters, describe the...
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