Daily Lessons for Teaching The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America

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: Introduction The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America is a non-fiction book which presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era and examines the first encounters between Indians and Europeans in the early 17th century through the American Revolution. Colin Gordon Calloway is a British American author and professor of history at Dartmouth College. In this lesson, students are introduced to...
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