Teaching The Rez Sisters | 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: Tomson Highway's play "The Rez Sisters" portrays a group of women on a Canadian Indian reserve. Canadian reserves are comparable to Indian reservations in the United States, where land was parceled off to Native American tribes or sects. This lesson will explore the meaning of the title of the play along with the history and life on the Canadian reserves.

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