Daily Lessons for Teaching Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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: Prologue Krakauer's Prologue to "Under the Banner of Heaven" sets the factual basis for the Lafferty murders. To lay the foundation for the book, he uses Allen Lafferty's timeline of the day of the events. In this lesson, discuss the factual foundation in the Prologue.

1) 1) Data Collection: Ask the class to write the "Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?" of the murders on the...
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