MWP & DOE Present:

2012 Fall Workshop

Sharing Lessons & Resources around Minnesota American Indians

(Workshop Flyer)

Saturday, September 29th

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.

September 29th workshop

Breakout Sessions:

• K-5 -- "Using American Indian Resources" (session handout)

PRESENTER: Michelle Shaw, Edina Public Schools

6th Annual MWP Annual Fall Conference.doc

Social Studies Standards for Native Americans.doc 

Sensory Poem.doc

English Language Arts.pdf  

Digital Writing and the Native American Standards.doc

• 6-8 -- "Embedding American Indian Perspectives into ELA Standards" (Power Point Slides)

PRESENTERS: Erin Mohr and Mary Moeller, Bloomington Public Schools

Perceive Card -- Created by Wiesman Artful Writing

"The Dream Catcher" (3:29) Hans Ouwejan

Chief Luther Standing Bear quote -- "We did not think the plains ..."

• 9-12  -- "Meeting the New ELA Standards: Teaching works by and about MN Native Americans"

PRESENTERS: Jaqueline Arnold, Mankato State University

                         Charon Tierney, Minnesota Department of Education
PDF of Presentation Slides

Resource Presentations:

• Birchbark Books in Mpls. MN -- Susan White presents some books and how they fit with MN Standards (See also Birchbark Resources for Educators)

Selected Books mentioned (see website for full descriptions)

• North Country -- history of MN to replace Northern Lights
• The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibwe
• Life in an Anishabe Camp
• Handout of Ojibwe Dakota and Lakota literature featured at Workshop
• MN Humanities Center
• Educational Resources Webpage
• American India Resources (handout discussed workshop)
• Braided Lives anthology & chapter guides

Keynote Speaker:

• Linda Grover, Professor at University of Minnesota Duluth, Author of The Dance Boots,
• 8 minute podcast of Linda reading "The Power of Frybread"
  

Closing Writing Prompt:

• Reading from 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know by Jeff Anderson (p. 243)
• More than that ...  (2:35) -- 2 classes team up to create a rebuttal video to the ABC special "Children of the Plains." 

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

• Monday, November 12th -- Sherman Alexie visits Minnesota
  
• Through Indian Eyes: Experience the Native Experience in Children's Books --
  
• Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Language's Podcast - Free Podcast Series of short audio files read in Ojibwe language
• Tamarack Song reads from his book Whispers of the Ancients (interview podcast)
  
• Roots and Branches: A Resource Book for Teaching American Indian Literature in Context
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for Teachers on American Indian Literature