New Unit: Immigration and Industrialization

Today's Agenda:

• Due: Native American Essays
• Preview: the next Unit is Immigration and Industrialization
• 5 facts about illegal immigration today

Native American Assessment

Your assessment of understanding the Native American Experience is a thesis-driven essay.

We have explored what it means to be a Native American through excerpts, videos, short stories, articles, and primary texts. Using these sources, compose an essay of at least five paragraphs that essentially answers this question:

• How and why have Native Americans struggled with their cultural identity? 

Here are some themes, guided topics, and ideas we have discussed in class:

• The Traditional vs. The Contemporary: How do contemporary Native Americans wrestle with their pasts, both personal and in a larger historical context?
• Spirituality: What is spirituality? What role does it play?
• Pride: How important is pride? How has the concept changed over time?
• Warrior: What does it mean to be a warrior? Why is it important?
• Storytelling: What role does storytelling have in the Native American culture?
• Resistance: How have Native Americans and their leaders resisted assimilation? How have they been assimilated?
• Migration: How were Native Americans forcibly relocated? How did this affect their existence?
• Reservation Life-Alcoholism, poverty, and poor health: Why have so many Native Americans fallen victims to alcoholism, live in poverty, and have poor health?

Link to the Essay
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Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 13 Attack 
• Continue: The Lone Ranger and Tonto..."The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore" Read and take notes on the quotes; provide context and meaning!
• Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand  

Native American

Today, we'll look at some articles concerning contemporary Native American life.

Here is the assigment, complete with an exemplar.

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.

Native American Identity

AGENDA:

• Lincoln's execution of 38 Sioux
• "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
• "Every Little Hurricane" (Questions)

Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 12 Attack (Open note quiz)
Analyze: Reconstruction (Slide Share)
View: The Rise of Jim Crow

Unit-Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: 3 Major problems post-Civil War
• Review: the assassination of Lincoln/President Johnson
• Finish: the Chapter 12 Attack

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Read/Analyze: Whitman's O Captain, My Captain
• Discuss: the Civil War Summative Assessment