[MOSAIC] Determining Importance

[ljackson]

Recently I was able to tour the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home outside of
Nashville, Tennessee.  I had read Irving Stone's The President's Lady years
ago and thoroughly delighted in the opportunity to walk into history a bit.
However, I was so disappointed by the museum.  A great deal of display space
was devoted to slave life on the Hermitage, but try as I might, I could fins
so very little related to the Trail of Tears.  When I asked a docent, they
pointed out one very small (think 5x7) plaque with a brief blurb that
basically glossed it over BIG TIME.  As a teacher of Native American
children, I found this insulting and was quite disappointed.

Lori


On 11/29/06 4:32 PM, "Joy" <jwidmann at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> We're revisiting Determining Importance this week by doing a Textmapping
> project using a short book about the Trail of Tears. The groups were actively
> engaged in determining importance like I've never seen them before. Today we
> highlighted text features like italics and bold print. Tomorrow we will
> highlight names of people, places, and geographic features (rivers, lakes,
> mountains, etc.). Friday we are going to highlight the problems encountered by
> the Cherokee, and the solutions, if any. Then we are going to create story
> bags using icons the students will create to signify their own imaginary
> journey along the Trail of Tears.
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>   How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content
> go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
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Lori Jackson
District Literacy Coach & Mentor
Todd County School District
Box 87
Mission SD  57555
 
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