Monday, December 1, 2014

WELCOME BACK!!!!  How was break?

Chat about Ferguson verdict....

Announcements

  • DP update extension.    Please send me link when this is complete.  New Ospreys:  Does Dusty have your link?
  • Honors lunch meeting on Wednesday.  Please sign up for a meeting on the calendar!
  • I'm still grading reflections:)

NEW PROJECT!!!




Starter 12.1:  Read the poem "Crazy Horse Speaks"

  • What historical content do you think this is referring to? 
  • What questions do you have about this poem, its significance?
  • What people/places/events do you think you need to research/study to better understand this poem’s meaning?
  • Can you formulate any interpretations of this poem right now? 
  • Choose a passage from the poem and make an interpretive claim about its significance.


Goals for the Day

  • Understand the goals for our Native American Studies project
  • Explore the place where history intersects literature (that is to say: use historical information to understand literature and use literary interpretation to understand history)

Project Description

  • Questions and Clarifications


Group Work:  "Crazy Horse Speaks"

  • Take turns sharing your starter responses
  • One group member open up the google document 
  • Make a copy and share it with all of your group members AND Jessica
  • Divvy up research on the people/places/events and add notes to Google Doc.


Video:  Where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Defeated Colonel Custer


Whole class discussion:  What new understandings do we have about the poem? What further questions do you have?


We are going to be exploring the intersections between history and literary expression.


Reading:  Chapter 1 of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Who was Dee Brown?
Read intro aloud; establish bias of the history.


Bury My Heart Chapter One Response (HOMEWORK)
Annotate with the following questions it mind and then respond to them it your COMP BOOK


1.  How does this version of America’s history diverge from how you have traditionally learned it? 
2.  Where do you see evidence of a different ideological lens or worldview in the way the history is being told?  
3.  Why is it important to look at this version of the history of the West?