Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit-Native Americans

Today's Agenda:

• Due: Native American Essays
• Finish: Smoke Signals
• Preview: the next Unit is Immigration
• 5 facts about illegal immigration today

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

Begin writing the essay. You have half the block today with technology

• Immediately share your Google Doc with Jolicoeur and Buj so we can give feedback as you write
• Remember, you need three sources, one of which is Sherman Alexie's book. Cite correctly! Check out the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University for reference on how to cite correctly.
• Follow the organizational structure:
• M--Main idea/topic sentence
• E--Evidence--quote/citation (don't forget to integrate those quotes fluently)
• A--Analysis--relate your example to your thesis
• E--Evidence
• A--Analysis
• L--Last line/transition to next paragraph

We will watch Smoke Signals for the other half of the block.

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz: "Indian Education" (open note)
• Analyze: The Wounded Knee Massacre
• American Carnage: Wounded Knee
• Intro: the Native American Experience Essay

Check this out: Upworthy article on Native Americans Protesting Big Oil Pipeline

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Read: Bio on Chief Joseph
• Read: article from the Atlantic, "How America's Past Shapes Native Americans Present.:" and leave a comment (short paragraph) on this blog
• "The Great Emancipator's Mass Execution" and "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
• College-level essay and Looking at Academic Voice
• Sherman Alexie: Indian Education (READ FOR HOMEWORK)

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Recap: Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand
• Review: Chapter 13 Attack
• Read: "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"

Sitting Bull

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 13 Attack (Open Note Quiz)
• Due: Questions for Every Little Hurricane and A Drug Called Tradition
• Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand  

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 13 attack (linked 2 nights ago)
• Pass in: 2 summaries from yesterday if you have not done so
• Finish the questions for Every Little Hurricane and A Drug Called Tradition for Monday
• Optional: Watch video/read article from the Guardian  on Violence against Native American protesters. Leave a comment on this blog below.

Native American Unit

AGENDA

• Let’s read an article together
• Here is a summary that integrates quotes from the article: 
• Then go to our article resource page.
• Read two articles 
• Summarize (paragraph for each), integrating at least ONE quote in your summary, citing correctly 
• Do a Works Cited right after your paragraphs 
• Share/Print, hand in.

Unit-Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

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

Answer the questions for both stories.


Complete: American Anthem Chapter 13

Native American Identity/Resistance

• 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.
• From the Atlantic: How the Legacy of Native American's Force assimilation Lingers Today

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

Wrap up and Review the Unit on Reconstruction (Any questions?)
Intro: Summative Assessment

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Finish/Review: The Aftermath of Reconstruction
• Analyze: Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Examine: the role of the Supreme Court and the Court today
• 21 of the Most Important Supreme Court decisions
• Current Controversy: President Obama''s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

Review: Huck Finn Chapters 15 and 16

• Moral development, internal conflict, and dramatic irony
• "Stuck in a fog"--Literal (actual) vs. Figurative (deeper meaning)
• How is Huck figuratively stuck in a fog?
• Why does Huck trick Jim?
• How does Jim react?
• What is Twain showing us about Jim?
• How does Huck feel after?
• Dramatic irony--When the reader knows something the character does not
• What is ironic about this chapter?
• Conflict--Internal vs. External
• Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society/Ideas
• What is Huck's internal conflict?
• What does Huck do? Why?

Evaluating Reconstruction: The Aftermath

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Reconstruction Discussion/Notes

• Huck Finn
• Review questions on chapters 5 and 6
• Need to know: chapters 7-14
• Read: chapters 15 & 16 FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
• Discuss: the Southern Reaction to Reconstruction
• The Jim Crow Museum