Daily Lessons for Teaching The Revolt of the Cockroach People

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: Chapter 1, pgs. 1-21 The objective of this lesson is to examine the Chicano Movement.

1) 1) Class Discussion: What was the Chicano movement and how influential was the movement in the sixties and seventies? What was life like for Mexicans before the Chicano Movement started to fight for their rights? What problems did they cause the American government? What other famous writers supported the movement? Did...
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