Long Knives

The Coming of the Long Knives Open Court Fifth Grade Unit 5 Lesson 4  Ms. Mercer  Nicholas Elementary  SCUSD all images are from Microsoft Clipart, or have a Creative Commons license

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explosion
vision
examination
measure
position
discussion
edition
pleasure
version
education
tradition
selection
collision
restriction
illusion
nation
direction
destruction
starvation
duration

Word Knowledge
What is the pattern?
harm help
strength weakness
fast slow

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harm help
strength weakness
fast slow
The pattern is antonyms or words with the opposite meaning

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people Americans Navaho
vegetable plants corn

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people Americans Navaho
vegetable plants corn
Each of these gives more specific, or detailed information

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knife knives
life lives
leaf leaves

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knife knives
life lives
leaf leaves
These words have the “f” and “fe” change to “ves” when they become plurals

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direction
destruction
starvation
duration

Word Knowledge
direction
destruction
starvation
duration
the –tion ending making the –shun sound

Vocabulary
hogan
abandon
deserted
secure
captivity

hogan
“ We will build new homes,” he said. “When the Long Knives leave we will go into the forest and cut timber. We will build hogans that are better than those the soldiers burned.”
The Navajo family lives in a hogan on the reservation.
http://flickr.com/photos/sublime_dharma/114756304/ Traditional Hogan from Sublimedharma

hogan
“ We will build new homes,” he said. “When the Long Knives leave we will go into the forest and cut timber. We will build hogans that are better than those the soldiers burned.”
The Navajo family lives in a hogan on the reservation.
a traditional Navaho house

abandon
I would have gone with them if I had thought that in a few days the Long Knives would leave and we would come back to our village. I would never have abandoned them.
When the gold mines dried up, many people abandoned the towns that no longer had a reason to exist in that location.

abandon
I would have gone with them if I had thought that in a few days the Long Knives would leave and we would come back to our village. I would never have abandoned them.
When the gold mines dried up, many people abandoned the towns that no longer had a reason to exist in that location.
to leave something behind forever

deserted
Once they got off their horses and two of them climbed up to Rainbow Cave where cliff dwellers had lived long ago. But they found the houses deserted .
The tall weeds in the yard, the broken windows, and the hole in the roof was a sign to us that the building was deserted .

deserted
Once they got off their horses and two of them climbed up to Rainbow Cave where cliff dwellers had lived long ago. But they found the houses deserted .
The tall weeds in the yard, the broken windows, and the hole in the roof was a sign to us that the building was deserted .
not lived in, abandoned

secure
The white soldiers had searched the canyon and found no trace of us. We felt secure .
Our liberty is secure because many brave people have fought to defend our civil rights.

secure
The white soldiers had searched the canyon and found no trace of us. We felt secure .
Our liberty is secure because many brave people have fought to defend our civil rights.
safe from harm or danger

captivity
With the Long Knives at their backs…all the Navahos were marching into captivity .
The accused man was held in captivity at jail until after his trial was over.

captivity
With the Long Knives at their backs…all the Navahos were marching into captivity .
The accused man was held in captivity at jail until after his trial was over.
the state of being held as a prisoner

Background
This story is about the forced migration (or march) of the Navaho (Navajo) from Arizona to New Mexico in 1863.

Background
As white settlers came out west, there were conflicts between the settlers and the Native Americans.

Background
The Navaho were forced to walk 300 miles to Fort Sumner. This called the Long Walk by the Navaho.

Background
The Navaho had to stay as prisioners at Fort Sumner until 1868 when they agreed to stay on a reservation. This is still one of the largest Indian reservations today.

Long Knives

by Alice Mercer on May 20, 2007

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