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Lesson 1 (from Chapters One through Four)
Objective
The author spends a great deal of time explaining the earliest inhabitants of Colorado. The objective of this lesson is to examine the importance of the earliest inhabitants.
Lesson
1) Think-Pair-Share: Students will respond to the following prompt: Why are there two chapters devoted to describing the earliest inhabitants of Colorado? Students should share their answer with a partner and combine their work into one. Pairs will then share this response with the class.
2) Class discussion: How does the narrator describe the formation of the landscape in Colorado? Why is this landscape important to the animals and people that live there? What animals were among the first to live here? What happened to the wild horses? How does the narrator feel about these horses? What does the narrator try to disprove about the history of the horses? What is important about the bison? What do the bison...
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