Teaching The Da Vinci Code | 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: The prologue, along with chapters 1 and 2 of the book, are used to set up the story. They are full of suspense. The technique of creating suspense is one that is used often in the media as a whole. The objective of this lesson is to explore how the author uses suspense as a technique for capturing the attention of the reader, as...
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