Daily Lessons for Teaching The Children of Men

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: Fertility is clearly an issue our culture takes for granted. The people of the story's world were not prepared to handle life after the Year Omega, and this lesson is to transition students into the reality the characters of the book must face head on.

1) 1.) Classroom Debate/Group Exercise
The year is 1990, and scientists are beginning to discover the rapid decrease in...
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