Native Americans, Day 6 - Class Recap

A rock formation in Arches National Park in Utah, which is part of Ancestral Puebloan territory. Photo taken in 2007.

Dear class,

It is always great to see you all in the morning! We finished Broken Treaties and did some work on historical events involving Native Americans and the United States. Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets Addressed: 

Behavior LT 3: I can communicate and work effectively within a team or group.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.

Soundtrack: "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley. Selected for today because of the relationship to the "trail of tears" that we discussed today in class. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 10/16/18:
News Brief - Michael
Finish Broken Treaties
Discussion
NA Events

Homework: Read the blog. Turn in all missing work ASAP (grades have been updated on StudentVUE). The next news brief is assigned to: Emanuel.

News Brief: Today's news brief was brought in by Michael, who selected an article about this story: CNN.com - Sears owes billions of dollars: Who will be left holding the bag?. We discussed this story for a bit and then moved on.

We also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class this weekend.

Emanuel was selected to do the next news brief.

As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

Finish Broken Treaties: Next, we finished this fantastic OPB documentary called Broken Treaties, which came out last year. This documentary does a really good job at providing historical context for the displacement of native Oregonians, as well as some current issues of the day. Here is the link to watch the documentary, if you missed class or wanted to see it again:

Here is the link to the worksheet of questions that students were responding to in class (which is mostly in chronological order):

Google Drive - Broken Treaties Film Questions

Discussion: After the documentary (there were only about 10-15 minutes left to watch today in class), we had a discussion on the questions, which I collected to assess as a behavior target. Thanks for your participation, everyone.

NA Events: To end the day, I wanted students to know (or in some cases, review) some major events in terms of Native American and United States government interactions throughout the year. Here's the worksheet we went through together:

Google Drive - Native American/United States Government Events Activity

I assigned students to groups to learn about one of the events together, then we had a conversation together about what we found. If there was any time after this, it was dedicated to make up time in class for missing work (which it appears many students have to do).