Daily Lessons for Teaching The Last Lecture

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 and Part I This book is an autobiographical book. The objectives of this lesson will be to review some major aspects of Randy Pausch's life and to discuss how having this book as an autobiography affects the plot and the feeling of the book.

1) 1) Life Review of Author: Provide a brief overview of Randy Pausch's life along with some of the major events...
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