Daily Lessons for Teaching How the Irish Saved Civilization

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: We normally think of a Stone Age culture as something that existed thousands, if not millions, of years ago. Yet Irish civilization in the fifth/sixth century B.C.E. is described in the introduction of How the Irish Saved Civilization as a Stone Age society. The objective of this lesson is for students to discover the characteristics of a typical Stone Age society and determine if indeed fifth/sixth...
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