Writing Media Literacy

Reading 1. Write a personal letter 1. Find three reliable online

1.Read a book with Native American lore sources containing information Speaking/Listening Grammar
to an early Native
and discuss the spiritual beliefs and on early Native American 1. Compare 1. Devise an Acrostic poem
American tribesman
traditions they read about and make text-to- cultures for a short research traditional Native using one of the key Native
describing their own
text, text-to-self, and text-to-world paper. American music American figures discussed.
modern-day life 2. Produce a video using
connections. (Ex. All Our Relatives: with contemporary Alternate letters between
experiences and will end Adobe Sparks where they take
Traditional Native American Thoughts Native American adjectives and nouns.
the letter in a question the persona of an early Native
About Nature by Paul Goble) [SP] [NA] music. 2. Construct an adjective
they would like to know American and describe what
2. Read a text highlighting early Native chain using construction paper.
about what it was like to everyday life was like for
American cultures. While reading, students Each link will have an adjective
live in an early Native them. [INTER]
will stop and question the author every on it describing an early Native
American culture.
couple of paragraphs to better understand American culture that was
[INTRA]
what the author is telling them about these assigned to them.
cultures. Early Native American cultures
and their development in North
Social Studies America
Math
1. Record information in a KWL (Pre/Post Test) [VL] 1. Design their own Navajo inspired
2. Create a graphic organizer with a partner with key 3rd Grade rug that highlights symmetry as the
elements about a specific early Native American key mathematical element. [VS]
culture. 2. Students will be a representation of
Meredith Hall and Laura Licea
3. Apply knowledge obtained to create an artifact that a herd of buffalo. The teacher will
would be found today on land inhabited by early give the students fractions of buffalo
Native American tribes [BK] [VS] hunted and they must fraction off
4. Construct a mural for people hundreds of years from Science themselves to find out what fraction of
now to find that will give them an idea of how we live the herd has not been hunted. [LM]
today (like we know about early Native Americans) by 1.Complete a nature scavenger
cutting words/pictures out of magazines. hunt in order to find the natural
5. Design a page for a classroom book based on a word materials needed to build their
that we use in North America today that comes from early Native American housing Fine Arts
North American indigenous languages. structures. [NA] 1. Music- Build either a rain
6. Receive a pen pal that is part of a modern Native 2. Generate a diorama for an early stick or a drum and as a
American tribe. [INTER] [INTRA] Native American culture class they will perform a
7. Assemble small structures using natural materials including examples of the natural traditional Native American
modeling those used by early Native American tribes terrain, and tools made and used Rain dance. [MR]
for housing. [BK] for housing and hunting. 2. Art- Design and Gardners Intelligences
8. Sort information comparing and contrasting two construct traditional Native [BK] Bodily Kinesthetic
early Native American cultures in a Venn Diagram. American garb.
[INTER] Interpersonal
9. Make an interactive map of the regions inhabited by 3. Drama- Perform a
[INTRA] Intrapersonal
early Native American cultures. Students will identify readers theater using the
[VS] Visual Spatial
and label each region. Each region will have a pocket traditional garb and
[VL] Visual Linguistics
or a sliding element that reviels information about that instruments they have [LM] Logical Mathematical
region. created. [BK]
[MR] Music and Rhythm
[SP] Spiritualist
[NA] Naturalist