Daily Lessons for Teaching Sam Houston and the American Southwest

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: John Houston was the creator of Virginia's Timber Ridge Plantation. After Houston died, his son, Samuel, took over. Samuel's activities with the Revolutionary Army took so much time away from Timber Ridge that the plantation failed and went bankrupt. The family decided to sell and move to Tennessee. Although Samuel died before the planned move, the rest of the Houstons would move to Tennessee where young...
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