Teaching Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West | 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: The opening chapter sets the tone for the novel. The Kid meets both the Judge and Toadvine and learns the first lessons of survival when he is robbed. The aim of this lesson is to examine how McCarthy sets the tone of the novel.

1) 1) With the students, examine the opening chapter of the novel. What language does McCarthy use? What themes does he introduce? What...
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