The document provides instructions for a social studies assignment on Native American cultures. Students are asked to work in groups to read about a assigned Native American tribe and create an infographic highlighting key information. The infographic should include a title, images, short descriptive texts, and suggested reading order. After reading, students will consider whether they agree or disagree with statements about modern Native American life and culture.
1. SOCIAL STUDIES
III TERM
PLEA
Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Sources:
https://www.ducksters.com/history/native_american_tribes_regions.php
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/native-americans/
https://view.genial.ly/5f8b8e118dc7320cf4ce85f1/guide-native-american-tribes
Topic: Native American cultures Comprehension goal: Identifies and compares the legacy of each
of the cultures involved in the Europe-America-Africa encounter.
Reading level: Literal, inferential and critic
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
During the reading:
1. Select important information
2. Keys to make an infographic: What elements should the infographic have?
After the reading:
1. Agreements and disagreements: Do you agree or disagree with the author? How do you react to these ideas?
Reading skills Learning Evidence
Recover explicit and implicit information in
the content of the text.
Take a critical position on the text.
Selects relevant information about the text.
Make value judgments about the form and content of the
text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
Identify economic, politic and cultural factors that have generated the native civilizations of North America.
BEFORE:
Reading objective: Read to account for what is understood by recognizing the main features from the Amerindians or
native civilizations of North America. Before seeing the video on the platform try to mention some of the tribes that
possibly exist in North America. Based in the exercise you can ask yourself: What do I know about the topic?
DURING:
1. Select a partner (only groups of two or three students) and a category. Remember that for each group a native
American region or tribe will be assigned. Use the mandatory reading assigned by the teacher
2. Check the source or others from the selected category. Select the vital information: What can I suppress?
What can I keep? This is relevant to the activity you are about to start.
3. The group must create an infographic about the selected American region. Keys to make an infographic:
Title
Central image, secondary images
Relationship between images and texts
Short texts using keywords.
Suggest a reading order
Try to use the suggested tools
Select the relevant information
2. AFTER:
Once the reading is over, Agreements and disagreements: Do you agree or disagree with the author? How do you
react to these ideas? Participate answering in a short way to these questions, then you can contrast to the video available
in the platform.
1. Native americans still live in tipis
2. Native americans gets lots of government hand-outs (economic help)
3. Native americans don´t pay taxes
4. Native americans are rich off of casinos
5. All Native americans wear headdresses
6. Another word for Native americans is redskin