Daily Lessons for Teaching The Light in the Forest

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 True Son has been told from a small child that his white blood was replaced with Indian blood, and his white thoughts and meanness traded for brave Indian thoughts. This lesson will discuss stereotypes.

1) 1) Class discussion: Have students share why True Son believes that whites have meanness and Indians are brave. What might True Son believe if he had never been kidnapped, but...
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