Daily Lessons for Teaching Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s

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: Pages 9-40 Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005) was an American journalist and author, and is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s contains 100 of Thompson's columns from the San Francisco Examiner,...
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