Recent Changes

Presenter: Nancie Atwell
Topic: Lessons that Change Writers (Grades 5-9)
March 6, 20102012
Location: Boston
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Native American Writers, Educators, and History
Draw on a rich variety of video and Web resources that feature Native American authors and educators, and K-12 teachers who teach Native American literature, culture and history.
Three contemporary authors -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, and Luci Tapahonso -- are featured in ?Native Voices,? http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit01/ the first program of American Passages: A Literary Survey. Find information on Chippewa Songs, Ghost Dance Songs, and several authors. http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit01/authors.html Also, search the archive for pictures of Navajo soldiers and code talkers and other relevant artifacts.
Watch an interview with celebrated author N. Scott Momaday in Literary Visions, program 9, ?Suggested Meanings: Symbolism and Allegory in Short Fiction.? http://www.learner.org/resources/series41.html Momaday discusses the mythological references in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "House Made of Dawn."
The Expanding the Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School, features three Native American authors and their work: James Welch in session 1, http://www.learner.org/workshops/hslit/session1/index.html Mourning Dove in session 2, http://www.learner.org/workshops/hslit/session2/index.html and N. Scott Momaday in session 6. http://www.learner.org/workshops/hslit/session6/index.html
Professor Greg Sarris demonstrates the use of Native American Pomo baskets to enhance the teaching of literature in ?Ceremonial Artifacts,? workshop 8 of Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop in American Literature. http://www.learner.org/workshops/artifacts/sessions.php?s=8
In Teaching Multicultural Literature, workshop 3, ?Research and Discovery,? authors Shirley Sterling, and Laura Tohe discuss their work, while teachers present literature lessons to their classes.
http://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop3/index.html Workshop 8, ?Social Justice in Action? features author Joseph Bruchac, who writes extensively on Native American themes. http://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop8/index.html
America?s History in the Making looks at Columbus?s encounters with Native Americans in unit 2, ?Mapping Initial Encounters,? http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/units/2/ while unit 3, ?Colonial Designs,? discusses the complex relationships between Native Americans and European colonial powers. http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/units/3/
As railroads and ranchers moved West, Native Americans were displaced from their homelands.? Look at Biography of America, unit 16, ?The West? for video and Web resources, including interactive maps of Native American lands and battles. http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog16/index.html
Visit our United States History Map interactive http://www.learner.org/interactives/historymap/indians.html for historical information about 34 Indian nations and tribes.
Art Through Time: A Global View, program 4, ?Ceremony and Society? includes a segment about a soul recovery ceremony site, presented by CHiXapkaid (Dr. Michael Pavel), Associate Professor at Washington State University, and two other Traditional Bearers of the Skokomish Indian Reservation. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/4/index.html Program 10, ?The Natural World,? spotlights the work of Native American artist and educator Kay Walkingstick. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/10/index.html
Rural Communities: Legacy & Change shows both losses experienced by Indian communities and more positive developments. See program 4, ?Legacy,? and program 5, ?Act Locally...and Invest.? http://www.learner.org/resources/series7.html.
Native American Classrooms
K-5
Social Studies in Action is a K-12 Video Library featuring footage of teachers from a variety of classrooms.? In program 3, ?Historical Change,? watch the bilingual classroom of first-grade teacher David Kitts on the Santo Domingo Indian Reservation in New Mexico, where his Native American students study the history of farming. http://www.learner.org/libraries/socialstudies/k_2/kitts/index.html
Inside Writing Communities looks at how to motivate young children to write.? Watch featured teacher Christine Sanchez, who is Navajo, in several of the videos, working with children from the Navajo reservation at Tohaali Community School, a boarding and day school. http://www.learner.org/workshops/writing35/index.html
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