Teaching Resources
Teaching Resources
"The Night Watchman" Teaching Guide
Link to guide coming soon.
Support your students as they process and make meaning of The Night Watchman, the 2024–25 One Book One Northwestern selection, by delving into this new Northwestern Teaching Guide! Teaching Guide authors from the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion will highlight important themes of the novel and suggest instructional designs, teaching activities, and authentic assessments that can help bring the content to life. Topics will include Indigenous pedagogy, trauma-informed pedagogy, engaged learning, decolonization, language, storytelling, and citizenship.
Sponsored by: Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
One Book: Further Reading
Online: https://sites.northwestern.edu/obonreading/
Northwestern's library has many resources that relate to themes in The Night Watchman. Examine government documents and testimonies surrounding termination policies, delve into the sacred stories of the Chippewa, and learn about the MMIW movement.
Sponsored by: Northwestern University Libraries
The Night Watchman Virtual Artwork Exhibit
Teaching “The Night Watchman” through The Block’s Collection [PDF]
This selection of artworks from The Block’s collection adds to the conversation by highlighting artists who use different strategies to reflect on the complexities of love, family, identity, and grief.
Sponsored by: The Block Museum of Art