Daily Lessons for Teaching Running Blind

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: In the prologue to Chapter 1, there is a discussion about knowledge and power. The objective of this lesson is to discuss how knowledge is power.

1) 1) Class discussion: How can knowledge be used to kill people? Would knowledge be needed to find a method of killing? Why or why not? How would knowledge be used to come up with a new way to kill...
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