Trail of Tears Story Scroll
· Materials: You will need copies of page 37, a brown paper bag, yarn, masking tape, markers, poster paint, scissors, hole punch
· This will be a cooperative activity. You will work in a group of 3 only to learn about the reaction of Native Americans to the stream of settlers coming to their lands and how they were treated by the United States government.
CONDUCTING THE COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY
· Working in a group of three, each person in the group will become an expert in one of three following subjects: Tecumseh, the Indian Removal Act, or the Trail of Tears.
· Next, all of students chosen to become an expert on each subject from all of the individual groups will meet with each other, research their topic, and write down all of the important facts that they want to include in their story.
· Then every student will write a short story about the subject they studied. You must use vivid adjectives and interesting nouns. When creating iconographic stories—visual pictures that represent words and ideas—similar to the style that many Native American groups used to communicate. The icons should be simple, invented images with bold strokes that represent elements in their story.
· As a historical side note, Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, developed a written language and alphabet for the Cherokee people between 1809 and 1821.
· Take one copy of the scroll template page 37 to use when mapping out the icons for your story. This will be your rough draft. After you complete a finished scroll by following the directions on page 11, return to your original group of three.
· Give me a copy of your draft so I can make two copies of your template so you can give a copy to each of your original group-mates.
· You will present your finished scroll to your group-mates and read (i.e., translate) it to them. Group-mates will then transcribe the translation on their copy of the template. This way it allows everyone to record all of the necessary information about all the subject areas at the same time instead of each student researching each topic individually.
· We will display the scrolls and the translated stories on a bulletin board in the hall.
· Materials: You will need copies of page 37, a brown paper bag, yarn, masking tape, markers, poster paint, scissors, hole punch
· This will be a cooperative activity. You will work in a group of 3 only to learn about the reaction of Native Americans to the stream of settlers coming to their lands and how they were treated by the United States government.
CONDUCTING THE COOPERATIVE ACTIVITY
· Working in a group of three, each person in the group will become an expert in one of three following subjects: Tecumseh, the Indian Removal Act, or the Trail of Tears.
· Next, all of students chosen to become an expert on each subject from all of the individual groups will meet with each other, research their topic, and write down all of the important facts that they want to include in their story.
· Then every student will write a short story about the subject they studied. You must use vivid adjectives and interesting nouns. When creating iconographic stories—visual pictures that represent words and ideas—similar to the style that many Native American groups used to communicate. The icons should be simple, invented images with bold strokes that represent elements in their story.
· As a historical side note, Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, developed a written language and alphabet for the Cherokee people between 1809 and 1821.
· Take one copy of the scroll template page 37 to use when mapping out the icons for your story. This will be your rough draft. After you complete a finished scroll by following the directions on page 11, return to your original group of three.
· Give me a copy of your draft so I can make two copies of your template so you can give a copy to each of your original group-mates.
· You will present your finished scroll to your group-mates and read (i.e., translate) it to them. Group-mates will then transcribe the translation on their copy of the template. This way it allows everyone to record all of the necessary information about all the subject areas at the same time instead of each student researching each topic individually.
· We will display the scrolls and the translated stories on a bulletin board in the hall.