Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate a focused inquiry question about how a specific Native American nation and European colonial group shaped one another’s choices, survival, and power using a defensible source-selection method.
Students will be able to analyze Native-authored accounts, colonial narratives, treaties, and maps for perspective, context, reliability, and corroboration to explain reciprocal influences on alliances, conflict, land, trade, survival, and political power.
Students will be able to compare how two eighteenth- or nineteenth-century foundational American literary works treat themes related to Native-colonial encounters and analyze how perspective, characterization, setting, and structure shape each portrayal.
Students will be able to interpret the themes, purposes, and rhetorical features of foundational U.S. documents in relation to political membership, land, sovereignty, rights, and power.
Students will be able to synthesize corroborating, conflicting, and omitted evidence into a warranted conclusion about Native-colonial interactions while acknowledging uncertainty, limitations, and credible alternative interpretations.
Students will be able to justify and revise interpretations through collaborative discussion and self-reflection while representing distinct Native nations and contested histories accurately and responsibly.
Products
Colonial Interactions Investigation Notebook
Each student documents question development, source-selection reasoning, close-reading annotations, an annotated bibliography, comparative literary and rhetorical analyses, discussion records, evolving claims, limitations, and final reflection. The notebook provides traceable evidence of the student’s independent mastery and contributions to the team investigation.
Native-Colonial Interactions Digital Evidence Exhibit
Teams create and publicly defend a curated digital case-study exhibit that synthesizes members’ evidence into a shared answer to the essential question, including a methodology rationale, annotated artifacts, comparative analyses, visualizations, conclusions, conflicting findings, limitations, and follow-up questions. Each exhibit identifies individual contributions and uses accurate, nation-specific language and appropriately attributed sources.
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