Daily Lessons for Teaching Orthodoxy

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: Chapter I, Introduction in Defense of Everything Else, explains the story behind the book Orthodoxy, which is Chesterton's argument for Christianity. Chesterton makes a variety of arguments but structures them according to his own preferences rather than a careful method. Since it is important in any book to understand the author's style, this lesson plan will focus on understanding Chesterton's writing style as portrayed in the...
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