Teaching The Iron Heel | 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: Dystopian fiction is the creation of a nightmare world or the opposite of a utopia or ideal world as the setting for the novel. Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures. The objective of this lesson is to examine how the writing style of this section reveals...
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