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Lesson 1 (from Prologue-Chapter 5)
Objective
The objective of this lesson is to discuss how Ned and other Navajo children are expected to forget everything about being Indian, and what is revealed about cultural genocide. When Ned and other Navajo children are brought to the Indian boarding school, they are stripped of their traditional clothing and even the way they wear their hair. Then they are told they cannot speak their native language.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What does the principal do when the new children start speaking to one another in their language? How does he keep barking at them and not try to help them understand what he is saying? What does Mr. Jacob Benally tell the children? Why are they not allowed to speak Navajo? What do the whites have to say about the Navajo "sacred language and [their] whole Navajo culture" (18)? How are the whites insensitive to the Navajo...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.2, 9-10.10, 11-12.2, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.7, 11-12.7
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