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1. Sign up HERE if you want me to average your seminar prep with your seminar grade. 2. Turn in your Sherman Alexie book AFTER your seminar. 3. Op-ed submissions to The Herald are due to ME by the end of class on Friday. Email me your op-ed with the subject "Herald" if you want to try to get it published there. 4. DP Update and Project Reflection Guidelines When not seminaring, you are either observing another group, continuing to prep for seminar or working on your DP Update and Project Reflection. **It is due by the end of class on Friday for Groups 1 and 2, by Monday for Group 3** Thursday's Starter:
Essential Question: How can an examination of multiple sources and perspectives lead to a more enlightened understanding of history AND contemporary social, cultural and political realities? Seminar Schedule: Thursday, first hour: Group 1 (Observed by Group 3) Thursday, second hour: Group 2 (Observed by Group 1) Friday, first hour: Group 3 (Observed by Group 2) Seminar Resources
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DEFINITION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. For your reference:
Agenda 1. As a class look at the charts on page 2 and read aloud pages 3 and 4. 2. Discuss: Reactions to this article? How might you incorporate this into your seminar prep? Essential Question for seminar is: "How can an examination of multiple sources and perspectives lead to a more enlightened understanding of history, and contemporary social, cultural and political realities?" 3. Review Seminar Prep Guidelines *Note: I will be available in class, from 3:15-4:00 today, lunch Thursday and SIG Thursday if you need additional seminar prep help. Note: you must observe one seminar and take notes on significant points made to use in your final project reflection.
4. Sign up for Osprey Week (see your AHS emails) Susy will post the Osprey Week groups on Dec. 3, the Wednesday after the break. The first meeting of your Osprey Week will be on DEC. 10, during the PEAK meeting time first thing in the morning. 5. Time to prepare for seminar Seminar Resources Seminar groups Seminar Rubric Seminar Prep Instructions ** If you choose to average your seminar and seminar prep grades, here is the rubric for what I expect your seminar prep to look like. Otherwise, you can just do bullet points which must at least thoroughly address the questions: OPTIONAL Seminar Prep RUBRIC Goals:
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Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and chief who led a resistance against the U.S. government to try to protect his people's land Announcements:
Agenda: 1. SHEG Battle of Little Bighorn activity
3. Go over seminar prep instructions (see below for the instructions) 4. Work time
Seminar Resources Seminar groups Seminar Rubric Seminar Prep Instructions ** If you choose to average your seminar and seminar prep grades, here is the rubric for what I expect your seminar prep to look like. Otherwise, you can just do bullet points which must at least thoroughly address the questions: OPTIONAL Seminar Prep RUBRIC Goal:
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Agenda 1. Go over the peer critique form and you all should download the form and give feedback electronically to save trees! PEER CRITIQUE GROUPS Steps for Peer Critique: **You must critique 2 students’ essays and be critiqued by 2. A. Email each other your papers B. Give written feedback using the peer critique form C. Then, discuss each other’s writing one at a time, using your points on the feedback form.
**** 2. Refine the essay and email your final draft with evidence of peer critique to Ashley by the beginning of class on Tuesday. Starter
Free write! Wahoo! Write about whatever you want for 5 minutes! Have fun with it! Get the writing brain flowing for our essay today. Agenda 1. Go over journal #5 requirements + Basic Writing Rubric 2. Brainstorm ideas in a small group for two of the themes:
3. Share out your theme and examples 4. Journal #5 Resources to help you with the essay:
Goal:
Understand the perspective of two Native college students and the way their identity conflicted with that of their college and the ways they demonstrated resiliency. Starter: Think about your own personal identity and answer the following questions 1. Who are you? How do you define yourself? 2. What are the influences in your life on your identity? (the media, family, friends, school, sports/extra-curriculars, cultural heritage, family history, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual-orientation, etc..) 3. In what ways has Animas influenced your identity? Do you fit in? Do you not fit in? How so? How does that affect your identity, how you see yourself, how you act? * KEEP YOUR COPIES OF SHERMAN ALEXIE'S BOOK UNTIL THE END OF CLASS ON MONDAY! Agenda 1. Pair-share your starter 2. Whole class: Share out something interesting your partner said 3. Time to read selections from the book, First Person, First Peoples 4. Respond to the reading: 1. What is one challenge/issue that the introduction highlights about Dartmouth College Native American students' experiences? 2. Find one quote from either Bennett's or Chamberlain's personal essay that supports the introduction's claim. 3. What clarifying or probing questions do you have about the reading? Today's Learning Goal
Identify an overarching theme in Sherman Alexie's short stories (i.e. a theme that seems to bind all the stories together) Starter Review your group's google doc from yesterday's class and Ashley's comments.
Agenda 1. All-class discussion
2. Gallery Walk Activity (5 groups) Round 1: Identifying key quotes- 10 minutes per poster
Round 2: Move back to your original poster-- 15 minutes
3. Journal #4 work time
Ashley's Example: Theme: Finding an Identity as a Native Youth Quote 1: "You see, the car looked mean. Mostly we just parked it in front of the Trading Post and tried to look like horsepowered warriors. Driving it was a whole other matter, though. It belched and farted its way down the road like an old man. That definitely wasn't cool" (13). Quote 2:_______________________ Quote 3:_______________________ Analysis: In these quotes, the overarching theme is the struggle to find an identity as a Native youth amidst stereotypical and/or traditional roles for Native Americans and the reality of reservation life and the 21st century. For instance, in "A Drug Called Tradition" the boys are intoxicated by the visions of tradition but ultimately decide to throw the drug away and live in the present moment- not forgetting tradition but not clinging to it either. In "Crazy Horse Dreams" Victor and the women seem to seek out an authentic Indian in the other person only to be disappointed when she realizes Victor is not Crazy Horse. Also, in _______________________, __________________________________________________________________. Ultimately, it seems that Alexie is trying to show the challenges of walking between two worlds and how Native youth are influenced by stereotypes and tradition in forming their identity. He seems to argue that "walking with your skeletons" but living in the present, is the best way to overcome this struggle. 4. Ticket out the door:
1st period: Professor Holmes guest speaker in the commons
Today's Goal 1. Analyze Sherman Alexie's "A Drug Called Tradition" and begin to try to identify common themes throughout the stories you are reading. Starter What stood out from Professor Holmes' talk?
Agenda Katie A. Eliana, Liam, Anish and Molly 6th period go to Chem 1. Share your takeaways from Professor Holmes 2. Announcements:
3. Definition of theme: Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. 4. Small group activity analyzing "A Drug Called Tradition" and then Whole Class Discussion 5. Make thank you cards for Professor Holmes 6. Time to read "Indian Education" and "The Lone Ranger and Tonto...." Questions from "A Drug Called Tradition"
1. What does it mean to be a "real Indian" according to the characters in "A Drug Called Tradition"? 2. How does Alexie divide dreams from reality? What is the difference between dreams and reality for the three boys? 3. What does this quote mean: "When Indians make lots of money from corporations that way, we can all hear our ancestors laughing in the trees. But we never can tell whether they're laughing at the Indians or the whites. I think they're laughing at pretty much everybody"(13). 4. Where else do you see evidence of a tension between Western society, or the U.S. government and Native culture? What does Alexie seem to suggest about the way these boys feel about the government and/or white society? 5. How does tradition function like a drug for Native Americans? What does it offer them? What does it let them dream of? 6. The narrator talks about skeletons that represent the past and the future. How does he describe these skeletons and how must a young Indian relate to them? What is he saying about tradition in this selection? 7. What do you think are the primary themes in this story? Find a passage or quote that best captures the theme. 8. Where else do you see these themes emerge/develop in the other two stories you read? Starter:
Watch this news clip: http://www.voanews.com/content/native-american-campaign-name-controversy-redskins/1790327.html. React to the video. What is your opinion on the Washington professional football team controversy? Agenda 1. Discuss starter 2. Watch the Friday Show (take the survey Libby emailed you at some point please!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbGjuNPqug 3. Prepare for Tuesday's guest speaker:
4. Introduction to Sherman Alexie's writing:
5. How to easily check who has replied to your posts 6 1 hour Work time: Finish the edmodo seminar *TURN IN YOUR CH. 7 ANNOTATIONS AT THE END OF WORK TIME! REQUIRED SHORT STORIES FROM THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN BY B.O.C on Tuesday: “A Drug Called Tradition” (12- 23), “Crazy Horse Dreams”(37-42) and “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix” (59-75). By B.O.C Wednesday, 11/12: “Indian Education”(171-180), and “The Lone Ranger” (181-190)
Today's Goals
Starter React to the 3 images above. What is the story the images are telling? What is the ideology or belief system of the painter/photographer? ANNOUNCEMENT
Word of the DayAssimilate: to adopt the ways of another culture : to fully become part of a different society, country, etc. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Agenda 1. Definition of ASSIMILATION + 10 minute video on Native American Boarding Schools *For your reference: Follow-up video about the abuse experienced by students at the schools 2. Go over the Edmodo Seminar Prep Guidelines (5 minutes) 3. Work time: Read ch. 7 and work on the edmodo seminar prep (90 minutes) |
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