Daily Lessons for Teaching Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

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 objective of this lesson is for students to be able to describe the basic elements of a non-fiction work (namely, narrative, storyline plot, and content), then find these elements in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together.

1) Tasks, Challenges, and Homework
1) Go over the basic elements of a non-fiction work with the class.

2) Break the students into three groups. Assign one of the three...
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