Teaching Neuromancer | Daily Lessons

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: Case, the main character of Neuromancer, is a career criminal. A former hacker, he has turned to dealing drugs and stolen property now that his ability to interface with cyberspace has been burned out of his brain.

1) 1 - Class discussion: What kind of person is Case? Is he a hero, or an anti-hero? What problems does he suffer from? ...
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