Daily Lessons for Teaching Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

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: In 1600 Dominican Friar Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for being a heretic. Discuss Bruno's life and how it paralleled the life and trial of Galileo.

1) 1. Discuss the execution of Fr. Giordano Bruno. What was unusual about the execution? How was Bruno executed? What happened to the remains? How did Bruno's work influence and/or parallel Galileo's work regarding Copernicanism? Why does the author...
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