Teaching The Dark Wind | 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: In the first few chapters of this novel, the author sets up a number of intriguing situations but refuses to explain to the reader what is going on. For example, Lomatewa identifies the corpse because of the flaying of the feet and hands as that of a Navajo, but no further details are given to the reader and the reader is left in suspense as to...
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