Daily Lessons for Teaching Crow Killer; the Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson

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: John Johnston, the subject of Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker's book Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson, was a Rocky Mountain fur trapper and Indian fighter during the nineteenth century. The story begins with the scalping of his Flathead Indian wife by Crow Indians in 1847 and chronicles Johnston's revenge against the Crow by single-handedly killing and scalping Crow warriors and eating their...
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