Daily Lessons for Teaching Ubik

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: In this chapter, there is an example of a new way at looking at the after life, as a half life where the body is in suspended cerebral states. This half life allows people to talk to their dead relatives, and effectively provides a new dimension to the way of thinking about life after death. The objective of this lesson is to look into the...
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