For this activity, please complete all four partsin order and then upload to the drop box.
PART I: Watch the video on Indian boarding schools. The link is in Angel and also here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOe-x1aUP2o
Then, answer the following questions in at least 3-4 sentences for each bulleted point.
Consider what you have just viewed from the Native American perspective, respond to the following:
• How is the information about boarding schools connected to what you already knew?
• What information did you learn that that extended or broadened your thinking in new directions?
• What are at least TWOspecificchallenges did the Native American children have from having to attend these schools?
• Discuss the concept of “assimilation” of the Native American from the perspective of the American government.
• Explain the concept of “Survivors’ Syndrome” and how it affected students who attended the boarding schools.
PART II: Compare and contrast the following two photos below by responding to each prompt.
Pictures copied from: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/gallery.htm
PICTURE #1
• What do you see?
• What do you think is going on?
• What does it make you wonder?
