Daily Lessons for Teaching Stranger in a Strange Land

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: Space exploration. This entire book is based on a journey in space by humans, even though in 1961 when this book was written, humans had not even walked on the moon. This lesson will look at space exploration and what students think are the possibilities and what they wish were the possibilities.

1) 1. Group work. Divide into groups. Have each group list at least...
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