Daily Lessons for Teaching Legends of the Fall

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: Revenge, Chapter 1 sets the scene in the mission in Mexico, as well as beginning to develop many of the novel's characters. This lesson will discuss the setting and the characters who have been introduced.

1) Class Discussion: What is the setting of this chapter? Who are the characters introduced?

Small Group Activity; What can be learned or predicted about this story, based on the...
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