The Devil in the White City Lesson Plan

Larson's excellent narrative historical non-fiction is exhaustively researched, meticulously written, and covers the vast majority of the important events, people, and experiences from the period surrounding the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, while also shedding light on the impact of the main characters' lives and actions on the city and American culture during this period. While it is a fascinating account of this historical period more broadly, it is also packed full of details and information that students may find hard to take in and digest if they are not used to reading dense narrative history texts. In order to facilitate greater student understanding, many of the early thought...