Daily Lessons for Teaching How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

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: Chapters 1-2 "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" is a 2010 science fiction novel by Charles Yu. The novel is narrated by a young man with the author's name who travels through time as a time machine repairman and searches for his estranged father. The concept of time travel in the novel functions as a vehicle for the character to explore his own life....
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