LDC

This page is my first attempt at the LITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE

Black Elk Speaks excerpt.pdf //Used for educational purposes only//

//Things we could have been better at//

Describing the source of Black Elk Transitions between paragraphs

Revised student directions 6/30 After researching excerpts from Black Elk Speaks and viewing photographs of Wounded Knee, write an essay that defines manifest destiny and explains its impact on American Indian culture. Support your discussion with evidence from your research. || annuities, assimilation, Ghost Dance Movement, Manifest Destiny, Wounded Knee (Add - reservations and/or treaties?) ||
 * **Background** -Students are often taught about the assimilation or annihilation of American Indians through treaties, military actions, and/or events like Wounded Knee, 1890. However, students rarely learn about this struggle from an American Indian perspective. Using primary source documents that focus on the American Indian voice, students will understand how manifest destiny impacted Plains Indians religious beliefs, hunting economy, and feelings towards and/or interactions with non-Indians. ||
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Day 1 - Get task and reading; read together, discuss and highlight as class and in small groups. In-class reading with note-taking guide. Students should be sure to identify significant/relevant quotations AND EXPLAIN each one's importance and/or meaning. (2-column entry) //Students in college prep course were given three main points/impacts on culture: religion, hunting lifestyle, and interactions with non-Indians// Students can write about photographs - how does 1-4 photos illustrate main points?

Day 2 - Students begin pre-writing. Use writing graphic organizer to DEVELOP main points and outline thoughts. Yes, manifest destiny had impact on culture: Describe what kind of impact - positive, negative, dysfunctional, life-changing, etc. Come up with at least three examples to support each main point. Use READWRITETHINK graphic organizer to assist

Here is a map to help with planning writing from READWRITETHINK [|informational.pdf]

Day 3 - Students write googledoc, so teacher can comment. Teacher can use "ticket out door," reader/writer conference (that is, conference between student and teacher/reader) or peer-edit to get student feed-back on progress or confusing issues.

Issues - a) Students listed a lot of quotations, but did not always explain OR some students had very few quotations or none - yet used the terms/ideas in text b) Students did not always explicitly tie-in the definition (ie - manifest destiny) into each main point. So they may have wrote of the Ghost Dance Movement, but failed to mention Americans and/or taking of land and/or manifest destiny - students were encouraged to make sentences that explained how manifest destiny specifically impacted each of the main points - religion, hunting, and interactions. c) Students often used terms like "they" "us" or "them" and because the essay includes two groups - Plains Indians and Americans, they were encouraged to help the "reader" and say explicitly who they were talking about.

//Improvement - focus on one area with each student rather than overwhelm with a million criticisms//

Day 4- drafts, edits, etc. Students were given teacher-rubric to see what they needed for an A. They had to talk about more than one photograph and they needed more than 4 references to the text with explanations. Some students needed help with works cited page and teacher provided links to copy on wiki page. ||

Be sure to EXPLAIN HOW THE PHOTOGRAPH ILLUSTRATES THE IMPACT MANIFEST DESTINY on Indian culture

Photographs
 *  A Lakota Ghost Dancing shirt, believed to protect its wearer from bullets. [Photograph] National Museum of the American Indian. Web. 18 May 2011 [|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_07.htm__]


 * Big Foot's band of Lakota, destined to become the victims of the massacre at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 [|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_08.htm__]


 * Chief Big Foot, leader of the Lakota band massacred at Wounded Knee, photographed several days after his death when troops came to bury the frozen bodies. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 [|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_09.htm__]


 * The frozen body of one of the victims at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 [|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_10.htm__]


 * Soldiers stack frozen bodies into a mass grave several days after the massacre at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_11.htm__]


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers pose with three of the four Hotchkiss Guns used against the Lakota at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] Library of Congress [USZ62-11974]. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_12.htm__]

BE SURE TO CITE THE BOOK AND THE PHOTOS YOU USE AT THE END OF YOUR PAPER <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Citations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Black Elk. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Black Elk Speaks.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Trans. John G. Neihardt. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1932.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Photographs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Lakota Ghost Dancing shirt, believed to protect its wearer from bullets. National Museum of the American Indian [Photograph] Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_07.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Foot's band of Lakota, destined to become the victims of the massacre at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_08.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief Big Foot, leader of the Lakota band massacred at Wounded Knee, photographed several days after his death when troops came to bury the frozen bodies. 1891. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_09.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The frozen body of one of the victims at Wounded Knee. 1891. [Photograph] Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_10.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers stack frozen bodies into a mass grave several days after the massacre at Wounded Knee. 1891. [Photograph] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Library of Congress. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_11.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soldiers pose with three of the four Hotchkiss Guns used against the Lakota at Wounded Knee. [Photograph] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Library of Congress [USZ62-11974]. Web. 18 May 2011 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/68_12.htm__]