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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• What historical content do you think this is referring to?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?