Native Americans are often viewed as bloodthirsty savages.  Is this fact or opinion?  Did they instigate wars, or merely fight for survival of their culture and livelihood?  Through investigation of  historical events, we will form an opinion based on facts known about the leadership of two well-known chiefs.

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Assessment Rationale

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Standards	SS 8.1.25	SS 8.1.24	SS 8.3.2	SS 8.3.1	LA 8.1.3	LA 8.2.3	LA 8.3.7	LA 8.7.1	LA 8.7.11
Plains Indian video: KWL Chart		X		X					X
Plains Indian video: Mapping			X	X
Discussion  of cultures: Nez Perce/Sioux				X					X
Time Line	X
Time Line Discussion		X							X
Picture Book Comparison		X			X	X		X	X
Biography Comparison: Venn Diagram	X	X							X
Poster Quotations	X						X	X	X
Student Presentation									X

Instructional Plan

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Humanities-rich Resources

Type (book link, etc.)	Name	URL (if any)	Annotation (can include description and notes on how to use.
Link	Sitting Bull	http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.html.	Biography and quotations for comparison and discussion
Link	Chief Joseph	http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/joseph.html	Biography and quotations for comparison and discussion
Book	The American Nation Beginnings Through 1877	Prentice Hall@2003 ISBN:  0-13-058848-2	Review text background information on location and cultures of various western tribes for discussion
Book	Children's Atlas of Native Americans	Rand McNally@1992 ISBN: 0-582-83494-0	Review background information on the location and cultures of various western tribes for discussion
Book	A Picture Book of Sitting Bull by David A. Adler	Holiday House@1993 ISBN:0-8234-1044-7l	Show the importance of using several sources Time line of  events
Book	A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac	Philomel Books@1994 ISBN: 0-399-22692-3	Show the importance of using several sources Map of area
Book	Time lines of Native American History by Susan Hazen-Hammond	A Perigee Book@1997 ISBN:  0-399-52307-3	Short biographies of events to add to time line
Book	Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces A Photographic History by Bill & Jan Moeller	Mountain Press Publishing Company@1995 ISBN:  0-87842-319-2	Daily summary of Nez Perce retreat to Canada with modern pictures of terrain
Book	The Great Chiefs	Time-Life with text by Benjamin Cuppa@1975 Library of Congress:  75-744	Background information on Sitting Bull, Nez Perce
Book	American Indian Warrior Chiefs by Jason Hook	Firebird Books@1989 ISBN  1 85314 103 8	Background information on Chief Joseph
Book	The Encyclopedia of Native America by Trudy Griffin-Pierce	Viking (Penguin  Books)@ 1995 ISBN:  0-670-85104-3	Background information on  cultures,  conflicts, biography
Video	The Native Americans: The People of the Great Plains (Part2)	Turner Home Entertainment@1994	50 minutes Visual and auditory review for my non-readers with discussion

Instructional Plan

Instructional Day	Description
Day 1	Fill in the K of the K-W-L chart individually. Make a class poster of their answers to remain posted during unit.  View the video on the Plains Indians.  Home work:  Fill in the W of the K-W-L chart.
Day 2	Make poster for the W.  Divide the class into co-operative groups and assign a culture area for each  to explore.  See attached sheet.
Day 3	Finish work.  Present and discuss similarities and differences.
Day 4	Build a time line using three equal lengths of  freezer wrap.  Label  each Nez Perce(Chief Joseph),  settlers/soldiers/influential events,  Lakota Souix (Sitting Bull) from 1830-1900.  See attached sheet.  Homework:  Read more about one event from the time line.
Day 5	Discuss what you learned, and predict possible cause-effect interactions.
Day 6	Learn the importance of using more than one source by completing a checklist comparing two biography picture books of  Sitting Bull.
Day 7	Learn the importance of using more than one source by completing a checklist comparing two biography picture books of  Sitting Bull.
Day 8	Extend the information from the picture books by  completing one project.  Chart the Indians words and  find their meaning through sentence context.  OR  Write a paragraph on how children were given names.  Give examples from the book.Tell what your early name could be and why.  OR  Explain "The Great Buffalo" story Returns Again told.  Why would he give Slow one of his names.
Day 9	Read the two thumb nail biographies on Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph.  What significant events did they influence?
Day 10	Display posters of Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph with quotes.  Hand out URL quotes.  Present  and explain one.
Day 11	Display postage stamps of  each chief.  Write a paragraph on why you think they were immortalized.
Day 12	Displays of finished student work and completion of the L on the K-W-L chart.

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