Boarding School Lesson Plan
Boarding School Lesson Plan
Grade Level:
9, 10, 11, 12
Scope & Sequence:
Contemporary World Issues Geography
Goal:
The students will be able to understand and analyze the intent of Indian boarding schools in the in United States
Objective:
The students will be able to understand and analyze the role of Indian boarding schools and their impact on Spokane Tribal Lifeways.
Background Knowledge / Cultural Concept
- Creation of reservation
- Establishment of Fort Spokane
- Utilization of Fort Spokane as a boarding school.
- Boarding schools extension of Manifest Destiny
- Chief Lot’s philosophy
Spokane Tribal Values
- Education
- Home
- Acceptance
Vocabulary
- Ethnocentrism
- Cultural genocide/cleansing
- Manifest Destiny
- Boarding school
- Industrial/vocational
- Missionaries
- Assimilate
Lesson Plan
The teacher will:
- Introduce vocabulary and definitions – students will make a list with definitions
- Students will receive a text to mark while reading and discussing.
- Teacher will facilitate a discussion on the intent of the boarding schools in the late 1800’s
- Teacher will show a map to outline locations of boarding schools. (focus on NW boarding schools)
Assessment:
- Student response to quote
- Exit ticket on vocabulary and concepts
Enrichment:
Give students a poem from Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools to analyze and reflect/connect
Materials Needed:
- Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools
- Clips from the movie “Education of Little Tree”
Activity:
Students will receive a quote from text connecting to information just learned about boarding schools. Students will write a response to the quote using knowledge.
Lesson Assigned To:
- Social Studies Skills 5.2.1 Creates and uses research questions that are tied to an essential question to focus inquiry an idea, issue, or event.
- Geo: 3.2.2 Understands and analyzes examples of ethnocentrism.
NGSS
Common Core Standards
RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.