Daily Lessons for Teaching Emergence: Labeled Autistic

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 aim of this lesson is to examine autism.

1) 1) Class discussion. What is autism? What problems does it cause the sufferer? What are society's views on autism? Why do the students think it is important for an autistic like Temple to release a book and attract media attention? What other famous autistics are there? How has autism helped them to succeed in their particular...
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