Arapaho Truths: Wyoming's Native Americans

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Title:

 Arapaho Truths: Wyoming's Native Americans

URL:

 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/arapaho-truths-video-northern-arapaho/wyoming-native-americans/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

The Northern Arapaho of the Wind River Indian Reservation are storytellers. In an effort to pass their culture to the next generation, the elders tell the children four traditional stories. Using clay animation, shadow puppets, painting, drawing, and performance, the children make the stories come to life.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

Students will investigate how traditional teaching and the passing on of knowledge and wisdom are done through storytelling.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
19. Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

a. Determine and state an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or other traditional literature.

b. Analyze a common or shared theme and its development in stories, myths, and/or other traditional literature.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
23. Determine and analyze themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts, supporting analysis with textual evidence.

a. Analyze common themes of diverse texts with support from textual evidence.

b. Summarize a story or drama, describing how the plot unfolds and how characters respond to challenges or change their thoughts and actions and citing textual evidence.
Tags: Analyze, Culturally Diverse, Culture, Diverse Literature, Traditional Stories
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AccessibilityVideo resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
Comments

This resource includes a five-day lesson plan for use in classrooms.

NOTE: Spanish closed captions are also available.

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Author: Jessica Byrd