Teaching Tracks | 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: Chapter 1, Nanapush The objective of this lesson is to discuss the various diseases brought to the Indians by the white man.

1) 1) Students should each research one disease or sickness that the white man brought to the Indians. What was the disease? How was it brought to the Indians?

2) Engage the students in a class discussion about the reasons Indians were so susceptible...
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