Daily Lessons for Teaching Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan

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: Setting. This story is set in 921 A.D. starting in Baghdad and ending in North Europe probably in what is now the Scandinavian countries. The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.

1) 1. Homework. Students will rewrite the basic plot of "Eaters of the Dead" but set it in another century and place, explaining how the different setting changes the work. For example,...
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