Greetings! Find the week’s agenda below. We are taking an 8th grade field trip on Friday, September 23rd to the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum, which will be closing permanently next year. We will be making connections to our current unit of study, while preparing for our research/historical fiction project that begins next week.
Monday, September, 19
Friday’s regions quizzes handed back and reviewed.
1. We will revisit Sherman Alexie’s autobiography, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian with another read-aloud, which we began on Friday.
2. Students will be reading “Life on the Sioux Reservation, “ making connections to Alexie’s account of modern life on the reservation. Shared/group reading.
HW due tomorrow: Complete Questions: Smallpox in the Colonies.
Tuesday, September 20
HW Check and share-out
1. Finish “Life on the Sioux Reservation” and make connections to US, Census Data for American Indians.
2. Introduction to Indian storybook project examples and topics of study. Students will be asked to choose a topic by early next week, after our work with pARTners and our trip to Colter Bay.
**The entire 8th grade will be gone periods 6&7. We are going to a poetry reading at JHHS.
Wed & Thurs, September, 21-22
1. Matt Daley, and pARTners will be bringing in primary sources photos from the JH Historical Society. Students will be carefully analyzing the photos and creating “Flash Fiction” based on one of the images.
Friday, September, 23
Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum: The entire 8th grade will be making this trip, where Dan Greenblatt and the rest of the museum staff will be rotating students through four mini-tours. Students will also get to speak with this year’s American Indian artist-in-residence, DG House. This trip, students will be asked to make connections and draw contrasts to what they have been learning in the classroom. Please bring warm clothes and a lunch! Parents/Guardians, please sign below to give permission for your student to attend this trip.