Teaching The Mound Builders | 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: Author: Today's lesson will focus on the introduction of the play and the author. Understanding the author of a play or novel often helps us relate to the material he/she has written. The setting and themes of a body of an author's work are often connected to the writer in some way. Certainly, the time period in which an author lives and writes affects his perspective...
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