Daily Lessons for Teaching Steal This Book

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 addition to being a lifestyle guide and how-to book, STEAL THIS BOOK by Abbie Hoffman is a political manifesto of sorts. While telling readers how to get free food and drugs, Hoffman weaves politics into everything he writes.

1) 1 - Class discussion: How would you describe Abbie Hoffman's political beliefs? How mainstream were his ideas at the time of writing? ...
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