Daily Lessons for Teaching On Liberty

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: Book 1, Prefaces Etc. : Chapter 1, Prefaces begins with a simple chronological chart set alone upon a page. This lesson will discuss this chart.

1) Class Discussion: Describe the chart in this section.

Small Group Activity: What is the reason for using this chart? How does it prepare the reader for the rest of the book?

Class Discussion: Discuss how this chart is...
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