Daily Lessons for Teaching Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

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 and Chapter 2 The story takes place in the frontier state of Kansas. The objective of this lesson is to learn more about the Kansas that the pioneer women knew.

1) Lead the class in a discussion about what Kansas frontier life would have been like for the women who came west as homesteaders. What can the students offer about any previous study...
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