Teacher Guide

Dandelion Wine Lesson Plan

Study Objectives

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

  1. 1

    Students will discuss concepts of fear and wonder as seen through the eyes of a child, and the inevitable cynicism that comes with familiarity as we grow older.

  2. 2

    Students will examine the role that technology and modernization play in our lives, for better or worse.

  3. 3

    Students will examine the positive and negative aspects of nostalgia.

  4. 4

    Students will view Dandelion Wine through the frame of being a coming-of-age novel (bildungsroman), and trace how Douglas changes throughout the summer in which we follow him.

  5. 5

    Students will consider the role...

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