Teaching Dragon | 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: The introductory section of "Dragon" sets the stage for Clive Cussler's novel and has critical importance later in the novel. As the reader learns of the Dennings' Demon mission to drop a nuclear bomb over Japan, and then learns of the success of the Enola Gay's flight (an actual historical event), Cussler intertwines genuine information with fictional information. By incorporating the real with the fictional, the...
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