Daily Lessons for Teaching Einstein's Dreams

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 through 24 April 1905: Understanding Einstein is elemental to fully understanding the theme of the novel. The objective of this lesson is to examine Einstein's life to help understand the novel.

1) 1) Class Discussion: As a class, research Einstein online (using SmartBoard, or another whole class web-search tool). Have students suggest different search words or phrases to find out as much as possible about...
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