Daily Lessons for Teaching Xenocide

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: Understanding ritualistic burials.

1) 1) List as many cultures as possible that go through a ritual upon the death of someone. Which cultures have what in common? Which cultures perform the most elaborate ceremonies? Which perform the most mundane?

2) How has the way we perceive death changed over the eons? Has it become less or more spiritual? In what...
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