1. New World Unit
English 3
Quarter 1

2. Native American Literature
How does a person’s culture shape his or her identity?
Introduction to Native Americans (Media Study)
Wolf and Moon by Manuel Salazar.
How does the artist use the color and shape of the wolf’s tongue to direct your attention?
Why has the artist chosen to make the trees so flat and simple? Why is the wolf colored black?
What story or message about the wolf does the artist convey through details of its face and other details in the artwork?

3. Native American Experience
Native American Literature PP
Take Cornell Notes on p. 5, 15-23
No written language
Oral Tradition: history, legends, and myths
Creation stories, migration of people, deeds of leaders
Myths – write about two/three myths you know today
Explain why they are told
Why do these myths provide comfort?

4. Native American Vocabulary
Archetype
Found through literature through the ages
Symbolism
Something that goes beyond its literal meaning
Memoir
Biographical writing that shares personal experiences as well as observations. Often uses understatement, overstatement, repetition, and parallelism
hyperbole
Emphasis by saying less than is actually true
creates emphasis/unity
Similar grammatical construction for equal importance/related

5. Native American Voices
Introduction to Archetypes in Literature Prezi
Archetypes in Native American Mythology Prezi
Creation Myths Prezi
NA Voices Assignment:
Native American Voices Analysis.doc
Read "The Dog and the Stick" Online
Read the Myths Online

6. Native American Voices Exit Ticket
ANALYZE:
How does the personification within each myth influence the myth’s meaning?
Give specific examples.
Why might the storyteller use an object instead of a person as a character?
Explain.
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE NAME 2013.doc

7. N. Scott Momaday
Read “The Way to Rainy Mountain” pp and note the various literary devices Momaday uses to create his history.
Discuss with your group/partner how this story shaped Momaday’s identity. Record the support to your response.
Explain Momaday’s narrative style by providing examples from the text.
Discuss what Momaday was trying to say about the Kiowa through the development of this story.

8. “The Way to Rainy Mountain” Exit ticket
Create a six word memoir that would sum up one event in your life or your entire life thus far.
If you were a literary critic hired to write a review of Momaday’s memoir, what would you write? (Write a critique of “The Way to Rainy Mountain”. Minimum 4 sentences.)

9. Voyages and Visions Essential Question:
How did historical events and cultural influences of the time period impact early American writing?
Common Core: RL11-12 Demonstrate knowledge of 18th, and 19th century foundational works

10. Prior Knowledge
Show your knowledge of the early writings in America by creating a list of about 5 facts.
Share these facts with your partner

11. Early American Literature
Exploration and Early Settlers
Described challenges, environment, and interactions with the Others (Native American/Slave)
Writing of explorers: journals, diaries, logs, letters, and historical narratives that discussed landscape and challenges
Writings of settlers: letters, reports and chronicles to friends back home
Colonial histories: Some were story like descriptions (not as pure) other narratives showed God’s plan or brutal treatment

12. Early American colonization
Growth of the English Colonies : From Massachusetts Bay to the Carolinas
A Segment of: Growth of the English Colonies : From Massachusetts Bay to the Carolinas

13. Jigsaw 1: Early American literature
1. Read your section and take notes (key ideas and concepts)
2.Write a quote from the section that summarizes the main idea (use proper parenthetical citation)
Group 1 - La Relación pp and Anne Bradstreet pp
Group 2 – from Plymouth Plantation pp
Group 3 – from A Narrative of Captivity… pp
Group 4 – from The Life of Olaudah Equiano pp
Group 5 – from The Life of Olaudah Equiano pp

14. Create a visual representing the main idea

15. “Beginnings to 1750”
 What motives might have prompted the earliest European explorers to sail to North America?
What aspect of Native American literature might have caused the Europeans to overlook it?
Were Puritan ideals especially suited to the task of colonizing New England? Explain.
In what ways were the roots of the American Civil War planted during colonial times?
Why do you think Puritans regarded fiction and drama as sinful?
Why do you think early Americans read so much produced in England?
In what ways are modern self-help books a reflection of Puritan values?
If the animal and plant species that settlers encountered in North America had been the same as those in Europe, how might American English have developed differently?
What does the anglicizing of Native American names suggest about what happens when one language adopts terms from another?