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Summary and Objective
Using selected items from the American Centuries website along with Lynne Cherry's book, A River Ran Wild, students will analyze and understand possessions of Native Americans of the Northeast and compare them to modern day family possessions.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students list 20 of their family possessions.
Step 2.
Using only the second story page of Lynne Cherry's book, students discuss some of the Native Americans of the Northeast's possessions before the white man.
Step 3.
Print the selected items for this lesson from the American Centuries digital collection. Using these selected items, discuss uses of these pictured possesssions.
Step 4.
Students analyze and sort the Native American's possessions into catagories of use, like food gathering and preparation, transportation, shelter, etc.
Step 5.
Students compare their original list (Step #1) with Native American's possessions and find items in their life or family's life that correspond to the categories in Step #4. Students may need to reassess their original possession list to have at least 1 or 2 items in every category.
Step 6.
Students will then compare and contrast the "then and now" possessions, focusing on lifestyles.
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