vInstructional Strategies: Cues and Questions, Classifying, Notemaking and Summarizing, and
Comparing
vLesson Length: 3 or
4 Sessions
vPurpose: The purpose of this lesson is to provide background knowledge to prepare students to read about an unfamiliar cultural tradition and to make text-to-world connections between the worldviews suggested by these traditional practices and those of present-day U.S. mainstream culture.