Teaching Riddley Walker | 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: When the novel opens, the narrator has just killed what may be the last wild pig in the area. This act represents a change for Riddley and the society to which he belongs. Riddley is part of a group of foragers, but farms are encroaching on the land they forage. This lesson will explore how people in Inland may turn away from foraging as farming becomes...
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