Activity:
This inquiry has been conducted with students from
1 st through 5 th grade, using various levels of support
and groupings. The time needed will vary, depending
on the age of students and the reading abilities (time
needed could vary from one to three weeks).
Make observations from the text. What do you notice?
1 st – 3 rd grades: Portions of texts can
be read to the class or in small groups, with the
teacher or students using sticky notes to mark evidence
of views of land, nature, etc. Sticky notes can simply
mark the place or contain a few words to mark the
tracks of evidence. Daily, the reading work should
end with a discussion. The teacher can then record
evidence found by students on a large T-chart (see
materials list).
4 th – 6 th grades: Students can be divided
into two or more heterogeneous groups, with each
group focusing on the view of colonists or Wampanoag
beliefs. Each group can use sticky notes and a large
graphic organizer to record evidence and their thinking.
Sticky notes may include the phrase denoting the
evidence and page number. Each day, evidence can
be put on a large chart, with sticky notes attached
to the appropriate box on a class chart. Alternatively,
students can record information found on their sticky
notes on individual charts.
Graphic Organizer (Use the sources to compare what
you notice about the two cultures):
With younger students, information found should be
added daily to the chart as the class examines both
the Wampanoag secondary source and the colonist primary
document. When both portions have been completed, the
class can read through the entire chart. As a class,
students fill out a large T-chart.
Older students can add to their individual charts
as they work or at the end of the session. Students
can then transfer the group’s observations
on to a class T chart.
Discussion (Discuss the context and interpret); record
discussion points on chart paper:
- What do you notice about how the two groups
viewed land? Wilderness? Woodlands? Animals? Religion?
Ways of life?
- As you read, did you find any hints about how
the colonists viewed the Wampanoag? How the Wampanoag
viewed the colonists?
- How could the two groups differing views of
land, etc., cause problems? How do these differing
views help us to better understand the conflicts
that did develop?
Lesson Extension
Copy and enlarge one or two a pages of the actual
seventeenth century reproductions, so that students can examine
the language, spelling, handwriting and punctuation.
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