Teaching Little Big Man | Daily Lessons

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: Foreword by a Man of Letters | Chapter 1, A Terrible Mistake Jack and his family are in a wagon train that offers whiskey to a Cheyenne band. The drinking leads to a misunderstanding that causes the Indians to kill the men and rape the women. Discuss the historical aspects of this chapter and the conflict that will propel the novel.

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