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__ Changes on the Western Frontier __

Essential Question: Why is "frontier" a good description of the Great Plains region during a period in which cattle ranchers and farmers settled there? [|Curriki Lesson] [|Citation Maker]

Day 4 Quiz Stereotypes of Native Americans Culture of Plains Indians Video: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Day 5 Collect Reconstruction Papers 3 Phases of Indian Removal Video: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Day 8 1. Finish Indian Removal Activity 2. Presentations 2a. Video Clip: 3. Ghost Dance Reading 4. Discuss Journal entry: What happens when cultures collide? 5. 3 Phases of Indian Removal: fighting, peace, and buffalo slaughter (Foldable) 6. HW: Sand Creek Case Study and Skull Mountain Worksheet

Day 9 and 10 Computer 1. Battles Activity: Comic Life [|Custer's Last Stand] [|Red River War] [|Fetterman Massacre] [|Wounded Knee] [|Sand Creek Massacre]

2. Read 208-211 and prepare for quiz based on reading.

Day 11 and 12 1. Quiz: 208-211 2. Discuss significance of battles and policy of Total War 3. Journal Entry: Free-write about Total War (think of moral obligations) 4. Discuss Dawes Act and assign Cowboy Foldable 5. What is the Turner Thesis? Explain (paragraph)

Day 13 1. Discuss the Turner Thesis 2. Finish Cowboys Foldable and discuss 3. Concept Web: Free Land Offered By Gov't 4. Snoopy Video: Trans-Cont. RR and Transcontinental RR WS (17-8) 5. Different Mirror Reading 6. HW: Read 214-216 and Wanted Poster Assignment due day 17

Day 14 Computer 1. Video Clip: OK Land Rush 2. Discuss styles of homes and their purpose 3. Sodbusters and Homes Power Point 4. Read 216-218 and Letter From a Woman Homesteader 5. Advertisement Poster: Advertising Agricultural Inventions- How Do You Like Nebraska WS 6. Honors: Farming the Frontier Writing Assignment

Day 15 1. Review HW 2. Journal Entry: When faced with trouble and in need of government help, what can you do? How would you do it? What are the responsibilities of your government? (General Motors Bailout???) 3. Memory Bubbles: Problems Facing Farmers and Farmers Unite 4. Letter to the Editor: Problems of the Farmers 5. Honors HW: How does the Wizard of Oz relate to Populism of the late 19th Century?

Day 16 1. Discuss the Wizard of Oz 2. Election of 1896: Role Play 3. Silver or Gold and WJ Bryan 4. Read Cross of Gold Speech 5. Election Buttons 6. HW: Study for Test

Day 17 1. Collect Wanted Posters 2. Review for test