Daily Lessons for Teaching All God's Children

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: Part I, Chapter 1, Bloody Edgefield Fox Butterfield wrote "All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence" in 1995 after a 30 year career working for "The New York Times." Butterfield has received wide criticism for his discussions on the paradox of crime rates. The objective of this lesson is to examine the author of "All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the...
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