Teaching The Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer | 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: Part the First: A Thete Visits a Mod Parlor | Source Victoria | Financial Complications of Bud's Lifestyle The first three chapters offer a great deal of background information about the futuristic world of "The Diamond Age": nanotechnology; magical storybooks; a world with no countries; a filtering information system known as the Feed; artificial body modifications; and credit cards implanted under the skin. In fact, the novel...
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