Indigenous People Keep Their Culture Alive & Resilient

Essential Question

How can we listen and honor Indigenous/Native Peoples cultural traditions, celebrations, and customs?

Texts

Informational

Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish

“Connected to Everything” is a story written by Jennifer Greene and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance. This story is adapted from a traditional tale of the Bitterroot Salish, a Native American tribe in Montana.

Jennifer Greene

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Oral Interviews

Students conduct interviews and record personal experiences focused on a specific theme. They synthesize and present the information as a drawing, poster, paragraph or bulletin board.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

Brenda Gutierrez

Indigenous People Keep Their Culture Alive & Resilient

Connected to Everything: A story from the Bitterroot Salish

Challenge the Text

Oral Interviews

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