Daily Lessons for Teaching Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

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: The objective of this lesson is to explore why coming across the Buffalo Rock on his motorcycle trip across North Dakota led to Kent Nerburn writing this book, Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder. Nerburn's thoughts about Indians, especially the Lakota Tribe will be discussed and the class will also be asked to share their own pre-existing thoughts about Indians:...
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