Teaching The Child in Time | 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: Chapter 1 Dystopian fiction is the creation of a nightmare world, or dystopia. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the writing style of this section reveals the genre of The Child in Time as dystopian fiction.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What is dystopian fiction? Identify elements of a historical novel in this chapter. For example, in dystopian fiction, the world is far from perfect...
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