Teaching Parable of the Sower | 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: Chapter One. In this chapter, we are introduced to the alternative reality of the story, in which the current situation in American is a dystopic vision of widespread poverty and violence. The objective of the lesson is for students to be able to understand the difference between a Utopian and a dystopian society and to identify aspects of this society in the text.

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