Daily Lessons for Teaching Ten Little Indians

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: Corliss Joseph is the protagonist of "The Search Engine." She is a nineteen-year-old Spokane Indian raised on the reservation yet she is unique among her friends and family because she likes poetry and wants to be a writer. In addition, she has gotten herself college scholarships and obtained a prep school education without attending prep school by asking prep school teachers to fax her...
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