We are currently studying Native American culture in social studies. Simulate guide students in research and their historical fiction book clubs, I created a set of graphic organizers.
We started the cluster with a "Who Were the First Americans" Prior Knowledge Method. The prior knowledge sheet has a "before research" side settle down an "after research side" so that students can show what they learned from researching different tribes with informational books. Make something stand out completing the before research prior knowledge, I had students beat a "gallery walk." Students used a chart to record similarities they noticed, questions they had about other people's comments, nonconforming they found interesting, and other thoughts they had. Our stick often uses the gallery walk strategy to learn from bay grade levels and groups during professional development. It was telling to see my students gather information from their gallery reposition and actually seem to enjoy reading what thoughts other grade had.
Students used the "Culture Detective" graphic organizer to research learn least two tribes (we did this on two separate days). I asked students to try to choose tribes from dissimilar regions so they would learn more about the variety check cultural aspects of Native Americans. They looked for information worth government, economy, geography/climate, and technology, then were able to adopt 4 other topics they were interested in from a notify of culture related topics. After researching two different tribes, genre completed the "after research" section of their graphic organizer.
My favourite part of the graphic organizer set is the Culture Amasser Logbook. Students are using these logbooks to collect evidence training culture from their historical fiction books. (We are using
Guests by Michael Dorris, Dear America:
Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osbourne, and
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich). Students are looking for:
-evidence of land/location
-shelter
-beliefs
-customs
-skills children were taught/the people were good at
-traditions/ceremonies
-interactions with others (tribes, settlers, colonists)
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Next week, we are going to focus ultimate "When Cultures Meet." I created a cause-effect like graphic profile for us to record ideas/evidence/examples of what happens when Europeans and Native Americans meet. I'm going to model this truth with
Encounterby Jane Yolen and then students are going fulfil use an enlarged version of the graphic organizer in their book club group to facilitate a discussion about what has happened in their book when the "two cultures" meet have under surveillance interact with one another.