Essential Questions & Enduring Understandings
- What are Meaningful Connections and what are some of my own?
- What are the characteristics of indigenous heroes?
- What is the value of studying Native Literature? Do the texts we’ve read this year reflect and/ or shape my identity?
- How have I grown as a reader and writer over the course of the year?
- What is Native Literature?
- How does figurative Language improve my understanding of Native Literature?
- What is the purpose of reading, writing and speaking Native Literature?
- How does Native Literature enrich my culture (reflection through story, poetry, memoir and song, or other creative projects)?
- How is rhetoric connected to intellectually responsible civic engagement?
- How can the pen be mightier than the sword?
- What is rhetoric and how do I recognize and use it?
- How do I create a solid argument (oral or written)?
- How do I show students that argument and rhetoric is something that they’re already participate in?
- How can I have them create arguments for ideas and events they care about?
- How do I analyze and create literature?
- How can I create movement in literary and rigorous environment?
- What does it mean to be a Native American Literature scholar?
- How should technology be used to study Native Literature?
Resources:
These resources are primarily for Grades 6-12. If you are looking for Elementary resources, please visit the Elementary page.
Videos
Kat Page (9th Native Lit)
Sarah Caldwell, NACA Elementary Literacy Specialist
School UbDs + Curricula:
*All documents listed here are under continual improvement and revision. If used, please cite.