Daily Lessons for Teaching The Fountainhead

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 student will be able to identify Ayn Rand's theme of Individualism versus Socialism in the novel by categorizing the main characters and their roles in presenting Rand's arguments.

1) Using the text, select passages that express the following:
1. The idea that there comes a point when all rules are established and there is no room for any further thought or creativity.
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