Teaching When the Legends Die | 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: The students have read the Introductory Poem and Part 1, Chapter 1 in preparation for Daily Lesson #1. The initial scene reveals George Black Bull sneaking home from a fight in which he killed a man. Yet he and his wife Bessie approach the matter in a different manner than the average white citizen might. The objective of Daily Lesson #1 is to examine the opening...
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