Daily Lessons for Teaching Valis

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: VALIS is a Philip K. Dick science fiction novel about the nature and power of God.
 The aim of this lesson is to introduce the book.

1) 1. Class discussion. What do the students already know about Philip L. Dick? What can the students tell about the book by looking at its cover, reading the title and reading the definition of VALIS? What do the students...
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