Teaching Silent Spring | 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: Carson begins this important novel with a sort of fable for tomorrow. Starting out in an idyllic scene, Carson shows us what life is like when it's in balance, only to change the story to what the world is already becoming - out of balance. Today's objective is to talk about the value of fables in our lives as well as the idea of storytelling.