How do we tell stories with images?  How do artists incorporate the elements of narrative into a painting?

If you are thinking about using art to tell your story, Google narrative painting and note how the genre incorporates narrative elements.
 
RESEARCH!!

Mini-lesson:  Elements of Narrative
1.  Review quiz results and concepts on handout.

2.  IN THREES:  Apply narrative concepts to The Jungle, Chapter 3.
Your group's scribe should download this document (or get a hard copy from me if you prefer).  Email me (or hand in)  your group's answers when you are finished.  Don't forget to put everyone's name of the document.

3.  Discuss the chapter as a class.


WORK TIME
RESEARCH!!!  Think deliberately about the types of sources that will help you give narrative details to your project!

WORK TIME
1.  Research!
2.  The Jungle, Chapter 3, due tomorrow
3.  Honors:  Project Proposal due Friday.  Draft of writing due next Friday 2/7.

Today's TO DO list:
1.  Update DP with Wounded Knee Inquiry.
2.  Begin researching your historical inquiry.
3.  Read Chapter 3 of The Jungle.  (due Wednesday)

DP work time.  Add the elements of your Wounded Knee inquiry to your DP.

1.  Explanation of Assignment

2.  Links to documents:  textbook passage and reflection, film analysis essay

3.  Images?  Be sure to give citation for any images you link.
4.  Send me the link when you are done!
5.  OPTIONAL:  Montana 1948 literary analysis essay (with assignment description)

Begin Inquiry.
History as Narrative
Research Notes (due next Monday 2/3)
Research Synthesis (due next Wednesday 2/5)

Read and annotate The Jungle, Chapter 3 (for Wednesday 1/29).  Think about the following questions as you read and annotate.
1.  What history is revealed by this particular narrative?
2.  Whose history is it?
3.  What ideologies do we see manifest in this narrative?
4.  What commentary about American history do you see, if any?

Finish:  The People Speak

WEEKEND HOMEWORK
Continue brainstorm and arrive at a topic by Monday.  Do some prelimary research on your topic (THINK: tertiary sources).

HONORS:  Grab a copy of The Monkey Wrench Gang and begin to read.  Meeting next Wednesday!!

Welcome, Libby!!

Film:  The People Speak
As we watch the film, each of you should make a list of narrative project ideas.  To be clear, we are not talking merely about topic ideas, but also about story ideas.  Add them to the Google Doc.

PROJECT LAUNCH!
History as Narrative
Research Notes
Research Synthesis

TOPIC BRAINSTORM

IN GROUPS:

1.  Brainstorm by Category

Your group’s scribe should download a copy of the handout and scribe electronically.  Using all resources available to you, brainstorm a list of US History topics.  Each group should email me an electronic version of your brainstorm.  Then, add your ideas to this Google Doc.

NOTE:  Peruse Timelines??

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0902416.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/

2.  What do these look like as projects?

 Brainstorm project ideas and add them to this Google Doc.  Frame them as ideas for narrative project, ie.  “shadow puppet show about the Great Chicago Fire” or “mural depicting the Vietnam War protests” or “epic poem about a family moving Westward on the Oregon Trail”, etc…

3.  AS INDIVIDUALS:  Deeper exploration into topics of interest

Follow interesting ideas down the rabbit hole.  As you go, narrow down potential topics from broad to specific.  (Think about the stories each topic might contain.)

1.  Read and/or explore chapter titles and index of Howard Zinn’s book or another history text.

2.  Watch Episodes of Crash Course

3.  Growth of a Nation

4.  Timelines

Homework:  Make a list of 10 potential topics for your project.  They should be narrowed down enough that you could do an historical inquiry on each.

WORK TIME THIS WEEK

DP work time.  Add the elements of your Wounded Knee inquiry to your DP.

1.  Explanation of Assignment

2.  Links to documents:  textbook passage and reflection, film analysis essay

3.  Images?  Be sure to give citation for any images you link.

LINK PROJECT PROPOSAL?

Continue preliminary research into Narrative History topics.  Once you have decided on your topic, you may begin researching and collecting sources.

IN-CLASS ESSAY!!!

RUBRIC

You have the whole 2 hours to draft and polish this essay.  If you want to take it home over the weekend for further revisions, you may turn it in on or before Wednesday at 9:20.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Film Screening:  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Be prepared to write the essay in class tomorrow!

Finish Wounded Knee Inquiry Docs!  All document notes, textbook passage and reflection are due tomorrow at the beginning of class.  See assignment description for info and reflection questions!  


Last 15 minutes:  Begin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film)

Preview:  Film Analysis of Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee

Film Response Rubric

WORK TIME:  Wounded Knee Inquiry

Starter 1.13:  Read this article.

WORK TIME:
Historical Inquiry:  Wounded Knee
1.  Continue Document Analysis
2.  Have a conference with me today!

Historical Inquiry:  What happened at Wounded Knee, SD on December 29, 1890?  Why did it happen?

Historical Inquiry Notes


NO HOMEWORK!  (Unless you are in Honors, in which case, I might consider getting some work done on your project.)

GroupWork:  Little Bighorn Primary Source Analysis 
Use the handout to record your group's conslusions.  (One paper per group is fine.  Make sure everyone's name is on the paper.)


History as Narrative:
Eduardo Galeano excerpts (Sorry, I don't have these electronically, guys.  Please refer to the handout.)
1.  What does Galeano's writing have in common with historical analysis?
2.  What does it have in common with narrative fiction?
3.  How does Galeano's historical narrative further illuminate the story of Little Bighorn?
4.  Is Galeano's account biased?  What is his bias?  How can you tell?
(*A series of excerpts like this is an option for your project!)



WORK TIME/HOMEWORK
Read from Sherman Alexie
1.  "Indian Education" (p. 171)
2.  "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"  (p. 181)
For each of these stories, jot down some interpretive thoughts.  What themes are emerging for you in Alexie's stories?

Announcements from Libby:

• check your AHS email account regularly in the next 2 months for important LINK information
• first draft of LINK Project Proposal due Wednesday, January 22nd--we'll workshop them in Humanities class January 23rd/24th
• be sure to communicate with Libby if your LINK plan has evolved since before break
• sign up to meet with Libby ASAP if you need help finalizing your plan--only 8 weeks left! (sign up sheet for meetings on LINK board in hall of West Building)

Images for Starter 1.8

Little Big Horn Context?  What do we know?

Textbook Excerpt Analysis:  The Battle of Little Big Horn
1.  Read the textbook passage several times.
2.  With a partner or solo, analyze the passage and answer the guiding questions


How do historians construct the narratives of the past?:  Historical Thinking Skills



Who is responsible for the Battle of Little Big Horn? 
The goal of this assignment is to think like historians:  to gather evidence from primary source documents in order to draw conclusions that answer the question.
1.  Read and annotate the Cameron Report and the Interview with Kate Bighead. Annotate with the historical thinking skills in mind.
2.  Answer the guiding questions on the handout.
HOMEWORK if you don't finish!

PAIR SHARE:  Discuss your individual interpretations of the stories and your answers to the starter.  What themes does Alexie illuminate with each of these stories?


Film Screening:  Reel Injun
Annotate film as desired in order to do the assignment below.

DUE TOMORROW:  In minimum one solid TEA paragraph, write a reaction to the film.  What did you find interesting or striking about the film's content?  What new perspectives did you gain from watching this film (and reading Alexie's stories if you want to connect the two)?

Welcome Back!

How was your break?
Write a haiku that references a moment or experience from your vacation.  If you are stuck, you may also write one about how you are feeling right now back in school.

staycation is bliss 

waking up slow to "I spy"

and pancake requests

Where are we going next?



New starter system!


Circle:  What are our preconceived notions about the history(ies) of the indigenous peoples of this continent?

Let's read stories!
Check out a copy of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
(If you have not turned in Montana 1948, please do so ASAP!)

WORK TIME/HOMEWORK

1. READ:

“A Drug Called Tradition”

“Crazy Horse Dreams”
any others you would like
2. ANNOTATE: 
Make a minimum of 5 stand-alone annotations (observations, striking passages, reactions, commentary, interpretations, questions).  
3. Be prepared to INTERPRET Alexie's work.  (As critical readers of literature, we are always doing so.)