Daily Lessons for Teaching The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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: Introduction Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the First and Second Discourses and was a philosopher, writer, and a composer. The objective of this lesson is to examine the author of the First and Second Discourses, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

1) 1) Independent Work: Library Research: Students should find answers to the following: When was Rousseau born? Where was he born? What happened to his parents? Who was he raised by? Did...
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