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Lesson 1 (from Prologue to Part One: Chapters 1-3)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to examine Jahren's desire to become a scientist, and what was communicated about being a scientist. Jahren indicates that people thought to be a scientist one needed to know math, physics, or chemistry. She thought that was wrong. She believed that a scientist was someone who asked questions.
Lesson
Class Discussion: Where did Jahren spend a lot of her childhood? Why were slide rules so important, and how did they represent the role between Jahren and science? What did she like about her father's lab? What was she allowed to do with the equipment in the lab? How did she describe the way that she transformed into a scientist in her father's lab? How did that foster her interest in science? How did the author discover that science was the field she needed to study in college? What appealed to...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.3(e), 9-10.7, 11-12.3(e), 11-12.7
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