Native American Experience Summative

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?

The Native American Experience

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• Complete: the questions that go along
• Optional: Historical Accuracy of the film

Native American Experience

• Handback/Review Article Summaries
• Issues
• Handback/Review the Impact of the Dawes Act
• Begin: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• Here are the questions for the film

The Native American Experience

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Indian Education
• Analyze  the Impact of the Dawes Act
• View: Current Event

Bill Left Hand photo from ABC News

Native American Experience

• Let's talk about those "Traffic Signal" quotes...
• Read "Indian Education" and complete the questions (on your own)
• OPEN NOTE QUIZ TOMORROW
• Analyze: the Impact of the Dawes Act

Native American Experience

Agenda:
Finish Custer's Last Stand
"The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"

The Native American Experience

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

• Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand  

The Native American Experience

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Questions for "Every Little Hurricane"--Notes & Quotes
• Discuss: the Native American Vision Quest
• View: Video on a Vision Quest
• "Drug Called Tradition"

The Native American Experience

Today's Agenda:

• Debrief: What articles did you choose yesterday? What did you learn?
• Lincoln's execution of 38 Sioux
• "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
• We will be reading short stories from Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Our first story is "Every Little Hurricane"

Native American Articles

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

Here is the assigment, complete with an exemplar. This is on our Google Classroom. Please submit through that.

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
• Submit through Classroom.

Native American Identity

• 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

Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

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

New Unit-Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

• 10 Takeaways from the Civil War
• View: 3 Major problems post-Civil War
• Review: the assassination of Lincoln/President Johnson
• Intro: Huck Finn by Mark Twain
• Notes on Twain
• Full Text of Huck Finn...We will only read chapters 15-16
• Questions for the chapters

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

The End of the Civil War:

General Sherman's March to the Sea was one of the most brutal campaigns of the war.

• Bio on General Sherman
• Scorched Earth
• Video on Sherman's March

Southern General Robert E Lee could have kept fighting but ultimately decided to surrender to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

• Appomattox Campaign
• The Surrender Video
• General Lee's letter to President Jefferson Davis

POW camps were horrible place to live during the Civil War

• Civil War Prison Camps
• Andersonville Prison Video

As a result of the fighting, the South suffered more than the North during and after the war.

• Civil War Casualties
• Heal the Wounds
• Rebuilding the South
• Costs of the War Infographic

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

The End of the Civil War:

Civil War #4 is posted on Google classroom. We have technology today to research the last 4 statements.

Atlanta GA after Sherman's March

Civil War

The War Itself: Summative Paragraph: 

• What were some of the strategies used and hardships faced for both the North and the South?

Some issues with those initial paragraphs: mostly citations and numerous details.

• In-Text Citations