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Native Americans Common Core RI.11-12.1 resources
Native American Myths Mega Bundle: 2 week unit & project based learning activity
This Native American Mythology unit bundle includes two weeks of activities to help students understand some of the key features of Native American Mythology and recognize the link between American Literature, American History, and current events. Use as Native American Heritage month activities or as part of a wider mythology unit.The bundle includes:2 days of slide presentations with background information on the Native American tribes and myths covered in the unit (The Earth on Turtle’s Back
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9th - 12th
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Native American History & Literature: Indian Boarding Schools | Louise Erdrich
Looking for a resource on the Indian Boarding Schools that will help your students understand how victims of mistreatment and abuse resist oppression in their own ways? In an effort to “kill the Indian to save the man,” the assimilation policies of the United States caused a great deal of pain to the tens of thousands of young people who were displaced from their homelands and taken to horrific institutions. While the Native American children who were forced to cut their hair and forget their c
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Native American Literature - Indigenous Art - Native American Heritage Month
Are you trying harder to amplify Native voices in your classroom? This growing bundle of rigorous lesson plans for Indigenous literature will meet the standards for TEKS, Common Core, and social studies and engage your students.What's included?◈Rhetorical Analysis Practice - Ruth Muskrat Bronson◈Rhetorical Analysis: Chief Joseph's Letter to President Hayes◈Geronimo & Red Cloud Final Speeches Compare-Contrast◈Indigenous Photo AnalysisMore to come! This growing bundle will eventually include N
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9th - 11th
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Native American Literature: Meaningful Podcast + Cultural Appropriation Activity
PRINT + DIGITAL!This lesson is the perfect modern day connection of cultural appropriation that your students can see happening around them right now. Give them the tools to be informed by experts about cultural appropriation from the All My Relations podcast with two different episode options with doodle notes. After this, students will read articles about different types of cultural appropriation in the mainstream media through articles. To make analyzing these articles more engaging, students
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Close Reading: N. Scott Momaday's Introduction to The Way to Rainy Mountain
This file provides a complete lesson for the Introduction to The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday. The activities cover vocabulary, close reading, critical thinking, symbolism, and assessment. Twenty-five illustrated slides introduce the author and Kiowa history and end with a prereading focus question. An organizer uses prompts to guide slide notes and there is a key for easy assessment. A vocabulary list includes unfamiliar words in context for students to define and a practice acti
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8th - 12th
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Native American Literature End of Unit Creative One-Pager Activity/Assessment
This engaging one-pager activity is the perfect way to assess your students in a fun and creative way at the end of your Native American Literature Unit! An editable version of this activity is included for you to fit your class.A one-pager is an awesome resource for teachers to use to promote creativity for students. Rather than asking students to answer questions or complete a formal assessment, one-pagers allow students to use sketching, key quotes, words, and symbols to represent important e
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Code of Handsome Lake - Native American heritage text & activities
Handsome Lake's vision of How the White Race Came to America is a fantastic bridge between Native American mythology and the literature of the earliest American settlers. The story helps students recognize the link between American Literature and American History and how they influence each other. It’s also a good example of how the waves of people settling in the United States react to each other and influence culture and society. It can be used as a Native American Heritage activity, as part o
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9th - 12th
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Interdisciplinary Project Based Learning Unit Native American Heritage & Culture
This resource pulls together Native American mythology, primary source historical texts, and the habitat degradation of an endangered species in this week-long, interdisciplinary, project-based learning unit based on real-life current events. Use as a Native American Heritage month activity or as part of a wider mythology unit.Students explore a range of sources in a structured way (like a digital breakout activity, where they must 'unlock' each stage of their investigation). They evaluate those
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9th - 12th
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"Rituals of Memory" Qs, Teacher Slides w Annotation Guide & Examples + Art
Included in this product is much of what is needed to help students process the essay "Rituals of Memory" by Kimberly M. Blaeser which appears in StudySync, MyPerspectives, and HMH Collections textbooks. Provided here is a user-friendly Google Doc (fully editable!) with text-dependent questions, an analysis of the connotation and denotation in the essay. Also included are teacher slides that provide directions on what students should annotate as they read in order to best answer these questions.
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8th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis: Chief Joseph's Letter to President Hayes, AP® Language
Looking for ways to incorporate Indigenous literature? This rhetorical analysis of Chief Joseph's letter to President Hayes will allow you to pull in non-fiction text in any American Literature or AP™️English Language course.Contents◈ One detailed lesson plan with materials needed, standards (TEKS, CCSS, ELA, and AP Language), activator, teacher input, student active participation, and summarizer◈ Background research exercise◈ Full text of Chief Joseph's letter to President Hayes◈ Five graphic o
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Collection - Geronimo to Jason Reynolds - Stamped
Sacagawea Fast 5 Unit (6th & Up)
Are you looking for a fun way to engage your students with fun activities designed to support the 5 Core Components of Reading? Fast 5 Units are a great way to hit all 5 core components of reading plus writing in a timely fashion and in a format that will motivate and engage students. They are also useful tools for collecting data and for progress monitoring and can be useful for identifying or addressing areas of need. Each unit is themed around a passage and includes:1. Phonics Roll and Read G
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6th - 12th
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APUSH Period 1 Primary Source Set
This APUSH Period 1 primary source set is a great way to help students prepare for the APUSH exam. This set is a collection of primary source texts aligned to the College Board’s APUSH Curriculum framework. Each text includes 1-3 text dependent questions to prompt close reading and class discussions.These rich texts are a great resource in all APUSH classrooms, and can be used develop skills assessed on the APUSH exam in May, including analysis of historical evidence.Educators can adapt these te
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: APUSH Primary Sources Bundle for Period 1, 2, and 3
Urban Tribes - Native Americans in the City Lessons - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for High School StudentsThis learning resource uses the reading strategies: connection, question, infer and transformation, to allow for powerful understanding. Students will gain a better understanding of the unique issues facing Indigenous millennials in North America.Lessons included will ask:Students to make connections, between the text and personal experiences, other texts and media, or world events/issuesStudents to document and class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Plains Indians - A Way of Life Ends
Following the Confederate Army's surrender to Union forces in 1865, most of the newly-reunited United States experienced a welcome reprieve to four years of war. Yet even before Reconstruction could begin, a new series of brutal conflicts was beginning out west. This two-part U.S. History worksheet seeks to inform students about the Plains Indians, their culture, their valiant resistance, and ultimately, the end of their way of life. Part I is a twelve-question matching exercise that includes Si
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP® US History: Jacksonian Democracy – Agree/Disagree Short Answer Worksheet
A hero to some, a brutal autocrat to others, Andrew Jackson brought a new combativeness to 19th Century American political life. Despite growing wealthy as a slave-holding planter, Jackson tirelessly portrayed himself as champion of the common man.This short answer history worksheet explores the many contradictions of America's seventeenth President. Was Jackson a hard-nosed political stalwart, or a backstabbing bully who only cared about his own supporters? Was he a tough-but-fair Indian fighte
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Unit 5 - The North and the South
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the French and English colonization efforts in the Americas. Sessions 5.1-5.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)Guided notes handouts that closely follow the textA complete answer key f
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Unit 4 - The French and the English
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the French and English colonization efforts in the Americas. Sessions 4.1-4.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)A professional audio recording (.mp3 or .m4a) of the full Session, includ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5.5 - Document lesson: Why do interpretations of past events change over time?
This file includes a full document-based lesson:6 primary and secondary sources grouped around a guiding questionA handout on historical literacy (sourcing, contextualizing, reading and inferring, and corroborating)A graphic organizer for focusing attention on key information, organizing ideas, and drawing attention to similarities and differences between the sourcesSupport for students working virtually and/or independently:Model answers in the student handoutVideo guidance modeling how to read
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Unit 5 - The North and the South
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Revered by some, reviled by others, Andrew Jackson was nothing if not controversial. Dubbed "Old Hickory" by his men, he gained national prominence following his victorious command at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Elected by a landslide in 1828, Jackson would soon employ these same methods to his political opponents. Over the course of two terms, he imposed, or attempted to impose, his will on American Indians, the Bank of the United States, southern planters, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among
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7th - 12th
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Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Native American Activist, speech to Coolidge
Included is a transcript of Ruth Muskrat Brown’s (Native American activist) speech that she presented to President Coolidge on December 13, 1923. As students read, they will document the pieces to the rhetorical situation using the included graphic organizer. Background information has been provided to give background information on Muskrat Bronson.
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9th - 12th
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Annotation Practice with Creek Chief Red Eagle & his Address to General Jackson
Students will read through the provided bank of annotation suggestions. As they read, they should highlight/underline the moments in the speech that reflect the suggestions. Then, students will use the right side of the chart to document the purpose of their annotations. Annotation Suggestions include: highlight, underline, or circle words or phrases that are interesting or dynamic to you, Tone, Word Choice, Imagery, Voice, Essential details, Figurative language, Sentence structure, Organization
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9th - 12th
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Native American: Info Text Differentiated Worksheets
Included in this file are THREE worksheets with tiered points and various scaffolding for differentiated instruction. The points assigned to each worksheet directly reflects the rigor of the prompts.The included article is about artist George Catlin and his art of 19th-century Native American culture. All three worksheets may be used with the same article.The information and the article are purely informational text with no bias or negative information.
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9th - 12th
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