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.