Mind Walk

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Mind Walk

• Discovering the Historical Record

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Fold your paper in half vertically (hot dog
style) so you have 2 columns
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Your Paper






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List all the activities you were involved in
during the past 24 hours (starting from this time
yesterday to this moment)
Step ONE
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Your Paper
List of activities Leave blank for now
5 am woke up
530am Took a shower
600am walked my dog
630am fixed my lunch for the day
700am arrived at work
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Step TWO

• Review your entire list. For each activity on
  your list, write down what evidence, if any, your
  activities might have left behind.
• Examples diary, notes, letters, emails, text
  messages, voice mail, calendar entry, checks,
  charge cards, receipts, eye witnesses, trash,
  material objects

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Your Paper
List of activities Evidence
5 am woke up None
530am Took a shower None
600am walked my dog My neighbor was also walking her dog we exchanged hellos
630am fixed my lunch for the day None
700am arrived at work Sign in sheet in the office Custodian greeted me on the way in signed into my computer
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Step 3

• Review your list and evidence. Then
• Circle the activities that left the most trace
  evidence behind
• Of the circled items, put a box around the ones
  that might be preservedexplain why!
• Cross out all the activities that would be left
  out of any historical record.
• Based on what is left, what would a future
  historian be able to tell about your life?

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Your Paper
Computer records last for much longer than many
other things sign in sheets are kept for pay
roll purposes.
List of activities Evidence
5 am woke up None
530am Took a shower None
600am walked my dog My neighbor was also walking her dog we exchanged hellos
630am fixed my lunch for the day None
700am arrived at work Sign in sheet in the office Custodian greeted me on the way in signed into my computer
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A future historian would say

• I work extremely hard given the time I arrive at
  work each day and the things I do on my computer.

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Broaden it out

• Now, think of a more public event (a court case,
  an election, a controversy, etc.). Write this
  event down, then answer the following questions
• What kind of evidence does this event leave
  behind?
• Who records information about this event
• Why are these events recorded?

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SoWhat?

• What does this activity reveal about what the
  historical record preserves?
• Why?

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Native American Culture

• Earliest part of the United States Historical
  Record
• Preserved through their own historical
  recordwhat artifacts might they have?

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Oral Tradition

• Stories spoken aloud rather than committed to
  paper an early form of both literature and
  history
• What are the strengths of this type of
  preservation?
• Weaknesses?Telephone/Gossip

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First Phrase

• The three little bears bounded happily across the
  meadow.

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Second Phrase

• The dancing girls gave Alice a purple rose.

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Validity and Fallibility

• Can something be both fallible (imperfect) and
  valid (legitimate)?

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Fact vs. Opinion in the Historical Record

• PREZI

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Origin Myth

• Myth a usually traditional story of allegedly
  historical events that serves to unfold part of
  the world view of a people
• Origin Myths explain a practice, belief, or
  natural phenomenon
• Examples?
• Fact or opinion?
• Valid?

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Onondaga Tribe

• Present territory is south of Syracuse, New York.
• Continues to maintain its ancient form of
  government, including a traditionally-selected
  council of chiefs.
• Short video Clip00-57 1040

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Symbolism

• The use of something tangible to describe
  something intangible.
• HEART LOVE

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What type of person might have had this totem
shield?
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What does it mean to be interconnected (pg 9)?
How do you think tales of nature and the natural
world show interconnectedness?
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In her introduction, Susan Power says, I was
taught that our lives are stories. Do you agree
with the statement? Explain.
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Animal in The Earth on Turtles Back Symbolic Meaning
Turtle
Swan
Beaver
Loon
Muskrat Sacred holy
Duck Graceful on the water sees clearly through emotions spirit helper of mystics and seers.
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Animal I like Symbolic Meaning




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For Later
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Symbolic Meaning
Grizzly Bear
Bear
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Reading Check questions

• 1. What happened to the wife of the chief when
  the young men uprooted the Great Tree? Why were
  the animals so concerned about this?
• 2. Whom do the Onondaga credit with bringing the
  Earth into existence? Explain your response.
• 3. How does life (the trees and seeds) come into
  existence on Earth? Where do the scratches on the
  Turtles back come from?
• 4. Who brings the Earth up?

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• In this scenario, how many points of view are
  there? (remember Point of view refers to who is
  telling a story.) How might the point of view
  change depending on the outcome? Why is it
  important to know that there are different points
  of view? If your friend was telling you the story
  how might things change is your friend was a
  player? A referee? A coach? An opposing team fan?

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Point of View

• What are the 4 narrative viewpoints?
• 1st personI
• 2nd personyou
• 3rd person Omniscient All knowing
• 3rd person limitedoutside narrator only focusing
  on one character

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Point of view

• What point of view is this story told from?
• 3rd person omniscient

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Point of View

• Is the Point of View consistent?
• Is it plausible?
• Are there alternatives?

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Modoc Tribe

• Originate from Northern California and Southern
  Oregon
• They are currently divided between Oregon and
  Oklahoma.
• The latter are a federally-recognized tribe, the
  Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma.
• The Oregon Modocs are enrolled in the
  federally-recognized Klamath Tribes.

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Mt. Shasta
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Grizzlies Reading Check

• What natural phenomenon is explained in the first
  paragraph?
• What is the difference between the bears of the
  beginning of the world and bears of today?
• What does the sky spirit warn his daughter about?
• Where does the daughter disappear to?
• Why does the sky spirit curse the grizzlies?
• Who were the first Indians?
• Look at the graphic on pg. 22. In what way does
  the artist blend the natural world and the human
  world?
• What Point of View is this origin myth told in?

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Origin Myths
Selection Phenomenon Explanation
The Earth on Turtles Back The world
The Earth on Turtles Back Trees and Seeds
The Earth on Turtles Back Scratches on the Turtles Back
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Mount Shasta
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Beaver
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Otter
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Fish
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Birds
When Grizzlies Walked Upright Grizzlies
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Reservation Life
Facts Opinions

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Direct V. Indirect Characterization
DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like. the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.
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Directions Characterization What this tells you about them.
1. Directly characterize your best friend.
2. Directly characterize your favorite teacher
3. Indirectly characterize your best friend.
4. Indirectly characterize your favorite relative.
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Little Spirit Sun

• Love Medicine first of Erdrich's "Argus" novels
  set 1912-1980s
• Three Ojibwe families living in Argus, North
  Dakota
• Erdrich has been compared to William Faulkner
• multi-voice narration and nonchronological
  storytelling
• Fictional towns Argus Yoknapatawpha County.
• Tracks is another novel in this series.

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Little Spirit Sun

• Setting Argus, ND Winter 1912
• Point of view Nanapush first person aprox. 50
  years at the time of telling

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Little Spirit Sun
Character Relationship to others Direct Characterization Indirect Characterization
Nanapush            
Fleur Pillager            
Gran-daughter            
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Little Spirit Sun
Nanapushs Facts Nanapushs Opinions POV affect perception?

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Thematic Connections

• Take your response to this scenario and write
  down as many connections as you can between the
  scenario and the real life experience of Native
  Americans.

Theme a unifying or dominate idea. For example,
love conquers all is a theme of many pieces of
literature.
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Therefore, literature reflects human struggles
through the themes of
Reservation life Reservation life Reservation life
The Scenario The article Little Spirit Sun

Similarities Similarities Similarities

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Basic human nature

• Overcome struggles
• Get the word out
• What are some ways to do this?

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Satire

• As you watch the video, make sure you identify
  the following terms
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• 1. Satire
• Purpose Context
• 2. Irony
• 3. Sarcasm
• 4. Ridicule
• 5. Exaggeration
• 6. Parody

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Satire
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Satire
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Satire
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Satire

• Name one issue that is popularly satirized in our
  society

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Satire

• We the People of the United States, in Order to
  form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
  insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
  common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
  secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
  our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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Satire