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Wednesday, November 5th

11/5/2014

Today's Goals

Critically examine the way the media portrays Native Americans
Deconstruct Zinn's chapter 1 and develop a better understanding of the chapter.
Understand Howard Zinn's approach to telling history

BIG Questions

How have Native Americans been portrayed in film?
Does "progress" justify the annihilation of a group of people?
What is "progress" and was European culture superior to Indigenous cultures?

Starter:
Get out your annotations/journal #1 out for Ashley to check for on-time credit
Then.....

What should your annotations and written journal entries look like for FULL credit?

A. Skim through these examples:

B. Discuss with a partner what is good about the examples

C. Contribute to the white board prompt: If you were grading the journals, what would you expect to see for an A-level journal?

Agenda
1. Read today's goals and big questions

2. Finish Reel Injun

3. 20 minutes: Time to finish Journal #2 (reaction to the film) and review Zinn's Ch. 1 reading:

Review Ch. 1 and your annotations/comments
Pick one passage from the reading that stood out to you
Highlight/Star the passage and on the last page of the chapter, write down the page # and your reaction to the passage.
Write one question that the reading raised for you OR one confusion you had about the reading

4. Pair-Share your written reaction to the film AND your passage selection from Zinn reading

5. Whole class discussion on Zinn's chapter 1. IF YOU ARE ABSENT TODAY, jot down notes on the discussion questions posted below.

6. Time to read and annotate chapter 7 and finish journal #2 (the reaction to Reel Injun)

Ch. 1 Discussion Questions
1. How does this account of Christopher Columbus differ from what you were taught in Elementary school?
2. What differences between European and Indian cultures does Zinn highlight?
3. Read aloud pages 7-9: What is Zinn's criticism of traditional methods of telling history? How does his method differ?
4. Page 10: How is the oppressor a victim? What does Zinn mean by this?
5. How did English justify their conquest of Indian peoples? What were their tactics?
6. Discuss the big questions (and review pages 17-21 to do so)

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Tuesday, November 4th

11/4/2014

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Today's Goals
Develop a critical eye to how the media portrays Native Americans and awareness on stereotypes about Native Americans that you yourself have held.

Starter

What stereotypes have you seen in the media (i.e. films, TV shows, video games, magazines, etc..) about Native Americans?

What do ideas do you have about Native American tribes TODAY?

Agenda
1. Read a "fact sheet" about Native Americans in the U.S. today (page 4 of this film guide)
2. Watch the film, Reel Injun
Take notes to help you answer write journal #2
3. Journal #2: Film response
In minimum two solid TEA paragraphs, write a reaction to the film. What did you find interesting or striking about the film's content? What new perspectives did you gain from watching this film?

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Monday, November 3rd

11/3/2014

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Crazy Horse Memorial is located in South Dakota’s Black Hills

Images retrieved from: http://omcbride-ahebee.blogspot.com/2012/09/crazy-horse-speaks-by-sherman-alexie.html

Today's Learning Goals

Understand the goals for our Native American Historical Inquiry mini-project
Engage in historical research to better understand a contemporary poem

Starter:
Read this poem : http://bibliosity.blogspot.com/2008/11/crazy-horse-speaks.html
and take 10 minutes to jot down responses to these questions:

What historical content do you think this is referring to?
What questions do you have about this poem, its significance?
What people/places/events do you think you need to research/study to better understand this poem’s meaning?
Can you formulate any interpretations of this poem right now? Quote a passage from the poem and make an interpretive claim about its significance.

Announcements:

DP Updates were due today-- New students, send your link to Dusty so he can put it on the website
Honors lunch meeting on Wednesday
Expect project grades to be returned to you within 2 weeks max.

Agenda
1. Guest Speaker: Avra Saslow presenting her honors research project (20 minutes)

2. Silently, read the project description and discuss questions as a class (10 minutes)

3. Group work interpreting "Crazy Horse Speaks" (30 minutes)

Take turns sharing your starter responses
One group member open up the google document
Make a copy and share it with all of your group members AND Ashley
Divvy up research on the people/places/events and do some research on those things.

4. Whole class discussions: What new understandings do you have about the poem? What further questions do you have? (10 minutes)

5. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nxRvt5Rjx8 (6 minutes)

6. Familiarize ourselves with the project resources google doc folder on my DP (2 minutes)

7. Time to begin reading chapter 1 of Howard Zinn (30 minutes)

Viggo Mortensen-- actor in Lord of the Rings and the speaker in the video we watched today in class.

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