Daily Lessons for Teaching The Last of the Mohicans

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: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 The student will take notes from a teacher lecture on the American novel and James Fenimore Cooper's place in literary history. The student will follow along with the teacher in Chapters 1 and 2 to identify the central characters of the novel.

1) Classroom activity:
1. Teacher lecture will center on the following:
(1) Prior to Cooper,...
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