Daily Lessons for Teaching That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

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 1: If You See Something, Say Something That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book by New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman and Foreign Policy Professor Michael Mandelbaum. In this lesson, students are introduced to the book, and they will research and discuss authors...
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