Teaching Black Wind | Daily Lessons

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: Introduction and Chapter 1: The introduction to the book deals with the possibility of biological warfare during WWII, followed by Chapter 1 which describes strange deaths on the Aleutian Islands in 2007. Students will examine the parallels between the two events.

1) 1) One-on-one: In pairs, have students discuss (a) any possible links between what has happened in the Introduction and Chapter 1, and (b) the...
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