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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1 The Importance of Ants)

Objective

Chapter 1 The Importance of Ants

MOTIVATION - In this chapter, the authors address their audience directly, discussing their motivations in writing the book, The Ants. The objective of this lesson is for students to explore both the motivations of the authors who penned the novel, and the motivations of the audience who pick up the book and read it.

Lesson

1) As a class, create a list of reasons the authors of this novel give as to why they decided to focus their attentions on ant colonies. Are any of these reasons surprising to you? Why or why not?

2) As a class, compare and contrast the motivations Holldobler had in writing this novel with the motivations Wilson had in writing this novel. What is the same about their motivations? What is different? Is this comparison unexpected or surprising?

3) Does the introduction, which explores the motivations of the...

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