“Tatterborn” (2017), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee, 1975– )
“Men on the Moon” (1978, 1999), Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo, 1941– )
“Father, Son, Holy Rabbit” (2010), Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet, 1972– ) ...
Learning Goals:
• To learn that reading Indigenous narrative texts through the lens of genre can illuminate and give new resonance to issues of place, decolonization, sovereignty, and self-determination ...
Learning Goals:
• To develop a common understanding of what it means to be human
• To understand what reciprocity is
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Teacher reads the following quote to the ... |
Learning Goals:
• To establish the ethos for the class
• Deepen the class relationship
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Teacher provides this quote for students to reflect on silently: |
Learning Goals:
• Deepening the class relationship
• Learn one new thing about a classmate
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1. Have students sit in a circle and go over the classroom guidelines ... |
Learning Goals:
• To come up with a definition of story and truth
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“The Truth about Stories Is ... Stories Are All That We Are” Students will do stream-of-consciousness wri ... |
Learning Goals:
• To develop a common understanding of stories and truth
• To begin documenting their story with the Where I’m From poem
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What is a story? |
Don’t just write what you know. Write what you wish to know. What you reveal to yourself, you reveal to the reader. Storytelling is about discovery. – Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations ...
“Have you got it? You got it, right? And now I want you to act on it. And tell your friends, and tell your friends to tell their friends, and tell their friends to tell their friends. That way we can a ...