Daily Lessons for Teaching Speaker for the Dead

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: This chapter examines colonization. The Catholic-Portuguese decide to learn from their past mistakes and not to disturb or influence the native inhabitants of Lusitania. The aim of this lesson is to examine colonization.

1) 1) Class discussion. Why do the students think the Catholics have colonized Lusitania if they have no intention of spreading their religion? What past mistakes do the students think the Catholics have learned...
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