Teaching The Key to Midnight | 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: Dreams and nightmares. Joanna Rand wakes from a nightmare where a man with a mechanical hand is standing over her reaching for a hypodermic needle. Joanna always wakes from this dream in the grip of a panic, but she is unable to understand what the dream means or why she suffers it nearly every night. The objective of this lesson is to look at dreams.

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