Unit-Industrialization

Today's Agenda:

View/Answer Questions: America, the Story of US: Cities
Discuss: the relationship between Industrialization and Urbanization
Pass Back: Native American essays (What do we need to work on?)

Unit-Industrialization

Today's Agenda:

Discussion: Introduce the new unit and major topics
Examine: American Anthem Chapter 14 (The Industrial Revolution)

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 13 Attack (Open Note)
Native American Paper is due (Print copy please)

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: the Native American essay
• Print it out and turn it in Tomorrow (Friday)
• Finish: Chapter 13 Attack

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Introduce/Work on the Essay
• Finish: Chapter Attack (13)

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Prepping for the essay: Looking at Academic Voice
• In groups, look at the college-level essay on Sherman Alexie's stories, and answer the questions.
• Finish the Chapter Attack (13)

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda

Finish textbook work/Chapter 13 The American West
Video Clip: Battlefield Detectives-The Battle of Little Bighorn

Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: 13-The American West (only 3 sections)
Chapter Attack Format (If you do not remember)
Catch-Up: Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven

Alexie/Native American Resistance

• Native American Resistance post 1850
• "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"
• As you read, look for the quotes provided. Explain the context (what is happening) of the quote, and the meaning (how does it relate to the Native American Identity?).
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 13-The American West

Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

Review: Native American Art Analysis (looking for some examples)
Quiz: "A Drug Called tradition"
Discussion: Notes on "Every Little Hurricane" and "Drug Called Tradition"
Examine: Native American Resistance After 1850

Unit-Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

• Review: What do we already know about Native Americans from AS1? (Brainstorm)
• Examine: November is Native American month
• Analyze: With a partner, choose one of the collections from after 1850 and analyze it. Use specific examples to demonstrate what the Native experience was like. Be creative.
• Here is a guide for doing art analysis.
• Tomorrow: Buj is going to quiz the story "A Drug Called Tradition"

Sherman Alexie

Our first story that we will read is "Every Little Hurricane," followed by "A Drug Called Tradition." Keep in mind where we are headed--how do Native Americans wrestle with their identity, and why?

Answer the questions for both stories FOR FRIDAY.

Reconstruction Assessment/New Unit-Native American Identity

Agenda:

• Reconstruction Assessment: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the questions in complete sentences, as thoroughly as possible.
• Our next unit explores the Native American Identity. Some questions to guide us through the unit: Who are they as people? How has their identity been formed? What was it in the past and what is it now?
• We will read some contemporary fiction from Sherman Alexie, a humorous, poetic writer, and these stories from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven all revolve around one reservation, and the way of life there.
• As for history, well, essentially our mistreatment and near eradication of Native Americans will be looked at, and how that has also formed the Native American Identity.
• A nice introduction to contemporary reservation life is a 20/20 special, "Children of the Plains."
• Sherman Alexie is charming on the Colbert Report...And again.

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Finish the chapter Attack on Reconstruction (12)
• Open Note Assessment on Monday
• Have a great weekend!