"What's an Annotated Bibliography" contains directions. "Teen Suicide a Fact of life on Native American Reservation" was the first article we summarized together in class on 9/15. Here was our class example: “Teen suicide a fact of life on Native America reservations” explains that teen suicide is happening a lot on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Teens are doing this because of alcoholism, depression, unemployment, helplessness, and poverty. Suicide is the second leading cause of death, and many try but don’t succeed. The Sweetgrass program is a suicide prevention group that “targets troubled teens.” Groups worked together to summarize different parts of the "Teen life on reservation" article. Then we assessed the source together. 9/16 Here was our class example based on one section of the article Summarize: “Housing & Malnutrition” explains that there is shortage of homes. For example, thirty people might live in a house build for eight. Most of the houses have bad insulation, bad heating systems, no electricity, and no appliances. “Most families on the Reservation have only a limited budget with many family members to feed,” which makes it difficult to buy healthy food. Assess: This is a credible source. It was published in 2015, which is recent so the data and information is up-to-date. The Medicine Wheel Healing Company was created to help Native American teens “recover from alcohol and drug abuse treatment.” This is a non-profit organization, and it also has statistics and data to support the ideas. We read the Newsela article together on 9/21 and then students wrote their own summarize and assess paragraph for a formative grade.
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We started reading this novel in class on Tuesday. We will read 90% of it together in class; the other 10% will be read on their own in class. We will encounter topics of poverty, alcoholism, bullying, identity, perseverance, self-acceptance, Native American Reservations, societal expectations. The main character is a 14-year-old Spokane Indian who decides to attend the local school off of the Reservation where he has to deal with being the only student that isn't white.
Smaller in-class activities 9/11 Unwritten Rules: Junior describes the unwritten rules he knows about fighting on the Reservation. No one explicitly told him these rules; they aren't posted anywhere. He just knows them through observation and experience. We discussed the "unwritten rules" involved with riding the elevator and visiting ALDI. Students were then to create their own list of 5-10 "unwritten rules" for something they're familiar with: hallways, bathrooms, the lunch room, sports, band, riding the bus, etc. 9/14 Conflicting Identities: Junior describes himself as a "part-time Indian" which shows us he feels conflicted about who he is. We brainstormed a bunch of "labels" and "identities" we each have, searched for a pair that conflicts, drew a comic using the one of pg. 57 as a model, and wrote a paragraph explaining how we are able to be both identities at the same time. 9/23: We watched this clip in order to visualize what Junior's life might be like. Ch 1-3 Activity
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