Native Americans, Day 5 - Class Recap

This photo is from Brenda Renning, who is our Westview tech support person. She wrote to me saying: "I have deep Clatsop Indian roots. The girl standing is my great grandmother and her grandmother is seated on the bottom right. We figure my great grandmother's great grandmother was 2 when Lewis and Clark were there."

Hello everyone,

Welcome to your weekend! We continued our investigation of Native American issues and history as we focused more on native Oregonians. 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: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. Selected for today because of the connection to the documentary "Broken Treaties" that we watched today.

AGENDA 10/18/19:
News Brief - Abimbola (+Kayla!)
Broken Treaties
Discussion
Map Activity

Homework: Read the blog. Map Activity due today on Google Classroom! Turn in all missing work ASAP (grades have been updated on StudentVUE). The next news brief is assigned to: Tony.

News Brief: Today's news brief was brought in by Abimbola, who selected an article about this story: CBSNews.com - More American young people are dying by suicide and homicide, CDC reports. I obviously took the time to discuss this a fair amount in class, as it is so important to take care of our mental health. If you or someone you know is struggling, PLEASE reach out to me, your counselor here, a parent/guardian - really, anyone who might be able to connect you with more support. If you feel like talking with someone else, here's a link to a crisis text line. There's also the Suicide Prevention Lifeline as a resource for help, 24/7, as well. Please let me know if I can help support you in any way - you are loved!

Kayla also filled in at the start of class and talked about this article: CBSNews.com - U.S. diplomats in Russia accused of traveling in restricted area near nuclear accident.

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

Tony 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

Broken Treaties: Next, we watched a 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

We did not finish going through all of the questions in class today, so we will pick back up and discuss this next class, as we continue our Native American unit. Have a great weekend, everyone!