MWP & DOE Present:

2011 Fall Workshop

Enriching Our Classrooms with the Works of Minnesota American Indians

(Workshop Flyer)

Saturday, September 24th

Minnesota Academic Standards: English Language Arts K-12 2010

• Standards and related resources found of DOE website
• Common Core Appendices related to ELA Language Arts
• Appendix A: Information about complexity and rigor
• Appendix B. Text Exemplars
• Appendix C: Student writing samples
• Common Core Curriculum Maps: Provides integrated curriculum units that demonstrate best practices incorporating the Common Core Standards in grades K through 12.

Resources from September 24th workshop

• Charon Tierney ppt slides --
  
• Breakout Sessions:
• K-5 -- "Found Poems: Sootface Across Cultures" (session handout)

PRESENTERS: Maria Theissen & Alex Papp 

• 6-8 -- "Seeing with New Eyes: Reading and Writing about Native authors with middle school students" (session handout)  

PRESENTER: Gretchen Hovan 

• 9-12  -- "Using Native American Literature to meet MN Common Core Standards"

(session handouts: Teaching Stereotypes & Stereotype Poem Example & Ojibwe Teaching Resources)

PRESENTERS: Renee Montgomery, Susan Perala Dewey & Rebekah Lund

• MN Humanities Center
• Educational Resources Webpage
• American India Resources (handout discussed workshop)
• Braided Lives anthology & chapter guides
• Carl Gawboy -- The Great Hurt of Indian Boarding Schools
• Using Readers Theater in the classroom (ReadWriteThink)
  

Other Resources for Enriching Curriculum with works of MN American Indians:

• Birchbark Books in Mpls. MN -- (handout of Ojibwe Dakota and Lakota literature featured at Workshop)
• Roots and Branches: A Resource Book for Teaching American Indian Literature in Context