Campfire Stories with George Catlin: Pipestone Quarry and Westward Expansion: Whose rock is this anyway? Lesson Plan

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Campfire Stories with George Catlin: Pipestone Quarry and Westward Expansion: Whose rock is this anyway? Lesson Plan

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This lesson is designed to emphasize how individuals' worldviews affect their method of expressing themselves and of telling stories. People describing the same thing will convey very different things depending on their worldviews (composed of their personal philosophy, religion, and even their job or discipline). Students will compare primary documents and analyze the motives of the speaker, and the author's intended audience. They will respond to these comparisons in writing and then by creating a representation of what they studied for a timeline.

Education Levels:

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

Geography, History, Sociology, United States History, History, Literature, Writing (composition)

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Keywords:

Catlin, George, George Catlin, Pipestone Quarry, Pipestone National Monument, Westward Expansion, Religious sites, Sacred land, Protected lands, National Park Service, Primary source documents, Interpreting history, Longfellow, Henry Wardsworth, Song of Hiawatha, The, Pipestone Hiawatha pageant, Supreme Court Commission, Comparative literature, Literary voices, Voice of the narrator, Intendend audience, Native American rock harvesters, Peace pipe, Calumet, Value of land, Sioux quartzite, Catlinite, Pipestone, Plains Indians, Plains Indian creation myth, Native American myths, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Historical documents, Case study, Native Americans, American Indians, \tEuropeans, European Americans

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Teachers, Middle school teachers, Secondary school teachers

Language:

English

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Campfire Stories with George Catlin: Pipestone Quarry and Westward Expansion: Whose rock is this anyway? Lesson Plan

Campfire Stories with George Catlin: Pipestone Quarry and Westward Expansion: Whose rock is this anyway? Lesson Plan

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