Teaching White Noise | 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: Book 1: Chapter 1 - Chapter 3 DeLillo's opening chapters establish a very definite style and tone that will carry throughout the entire narrative. It will begin to illustrate our understanding of postmodernism as we read deeper into this novel. The objective of this lesson to identify and understand the stylistic features underpinning the setting in these establishing chapters.

1) 1. As a group, read the last sentence...
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