Unit Lesson Plan

TOPIC(S): Introduction to Boarding Schools WEEK: February 29th-March 4th
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
Standards Standards Standards Standards Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7
Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or
Activity
Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or
Activity
i-read (independent read)
Introduce visual note taking (due
Friday)
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/note-
taking-skills-21st-century-students/
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
 Rotate through pictures
 Answer questions related to pictures
at each table (IEFA)
PowerPoint Pictures; Prediction &
Confirmation
Watch this video:
Humanities in a Minute: Indian
Boarding Schools
Review Vocabulary: pg. 38 from MHS
Read articles from Montana Historical
Society and Indian Education for All
 Losing Ourselves
 Student Narrative
 Boyhood
Work on Visual Notes
3rd
& 4th
Period:
Mike Jetty: Indian
Education Specialist
6th
& 7th
Period:
Discuss Mike Jetty
Work on Visual Notes
Comparison day:
 Distance from Home to
School
 Reservation Location
 Students' Daily
Schedule vs. Boarding
School Schedule (p. 97
Montana History
Resources:Tribal
Histories)
 CR Anderson vs.
Indian Boarding
Schools (Venn
Diagram)
Work on Visual Notes (due
Friday)
i-read
PLC Common
Assessment:
Argumentative
Essay
Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework
Work on Visual Notes Work on Visual Notes Work on Visual Notes Work on Visual Notes

TOPIC(S): Read Narratives/Poetry Introduction WEEK: March 7th
- 11th
CCSS.ELA-
LITERACY.W.6.3.D
Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or Activity Lesson and/or Activity
i- read
Introduce Footlocker
Read "My Name is Seepeetza"
Journal Entry #1
Write description sentences
about the photos from Indian
Boarding Schools using your
five sentences
Give time to look at
footlocker
Review what an
autobiography is by looking at
the book and such (IEFA)
Read "Land of Red Apples"
Answer #2,3, 5, 7 from
Huffington textbook
i-read
Review "Land of Red Apples"
Questions
Write a letter home on a note
card.
At least 6 sentences
Address
Drawing of Indian Boarding
School features
Letter Home due today
Entrance Question:
What kind of writing is this?
Multiple choice
Flocabulary
Introduce Poetry PowerPoint
Poetic Device Handout
Kahoot! Quiz
i-read/ Library Checkout
Stations: Poem Unit Plan
 Software game station
Interactive Site
 Reading Station of
Poetry Books/Poetic
Device Scavenger
hunt
“Land of Red Apples”
Questions
.Letter Home

TOPIC(S): Poetry Portfolio WEEK: March 14th
- March 18th
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.5 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5
i-read
Introduce Poetry Portfolio
Project
Write a Pi Poem about a
memory
Interactive Poetry Website
Read Jim Thorpe story aloud.
Complete Narrative Pyramid
poem about Jim Thorpe
Write a Narrative Pyramid
poem from a book they are
reading or have read.
i-read
Read from Sweetgrass Basket;
Focusing on the theme of
separation
Read poems related to family
Write Family Poem
Read from Sweetgrass Basket
Read "Good Hair" by Sherman
Alexie
Discuss the identity of students
attending Indian Boarding
Schools
Talk about loss of identity
Write "I Am" Poem
i-read
Read from Sweetgrass Basket
Read and analyze the "Road
Not Taken" by Robert Frost;
Focusing on the meaning of
future
Write Future Poem
Work on Poetry Portfolio Poetry Portfolio Poetry Portfolio Poetry Portfolio Poetry Portfolio

TOPIC(S): Field Trips/Poetry Portfolio WEEK: March 21st
- March 25th
Montana Historical Society
Field Trip
Poetry Work day/Organize
Portfolio
i-read
Poetry Portfolio due
Library/Downtown field trip Library Checkout/i-read
Watch "Where the Spirit
Lives"
Poetry Portfolio

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