• Have students read customer reviews on Amazon.com and reply/ write/post their own reviews
•  Have class create Analytical Plot Summary of novel
• Ask students to write 2 or 3 study guide/ reading questions for each section of the book.
• Ask students to identify particular themes and choose one or two to specialize in.  Ask each student to keep page number logs for their themes.
• the power of naming and of creating fictions
• what is "human"? How do we decide? (Other)
• man/machine-- cyborg interface, border crossing, role of technology in our lives
• gender roles
• family unit-- re-invention of marriage
• motherhood
• social construction of gender and norms of appearance, dress, etc
• sexuality
• cosmetic surgery
• science  and  mysticism (mechanic vs. organic)
• corporate hierarchy, control by multi-nationals
• attitudes towards politics/ government
• allusions : frankenstein, Faust
• ecological issues
• cyperpunk references ideas -- cyberspace, the Net, virtual reality
• violence-- moral issues associated with
• paralells between Yod and Joseph, Prague and Tikva
• Characters-- ask students to pick a character that they follow and interpret for the class
• Double Plot -- get students involved in building a comparison contrast chart about the two plots/ locations of the book

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 Latest update: 7/24/97