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Lesson / Document · South Dakota · OSEU 6

Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Treaties & sovereignty, Listening & observation

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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ “Lesson Title” | OSEU 6: Sovereignty & Treaties Compelling Is there only one way to record history? Question  OSEU Standard 6.1 – Identify historic eras as recorded through Oceti Sakowin Winter Counts, petroglyphs, and shirt wearer’s shirts (1700-1870). Standards and  K-12.H.2 Students will analyze and evaluate the impact of people, events, ideas and symbols Practices upon history using multiple sources. Staging the Students will journal about how they have learned about history. (What is the most common way Question history is passed down from generation to generation?) Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3 How were winter counts used and interpreted, How are textbooks and history What are Winter Counts? and what can they tell us books helpful to us? about Oceti Sakowin people? Formative Performance Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Task Students will come into Students will view a powerpoint on the basics of winter class and observe the Students will read a piece of counts. They will then create and sketch a symbol for winter count on the information out of their what they believe is the most significant event of the board. Each student will textbooks, and out of a primary year. They will also include a description on the back. get a write up of what history book. They will discuss in Students will get with a partner to review each others each symbol meant. The groups what they learned from winter counts. Then make inferences on what each of students will get a each section. As a whole class, your partners symbols represent. Then present your partner and find three we will discuss the positives and inferences to the class, along with what your partner’s things they can learn negatives of this form of history description. As a class we will discuss the positives and about Oceti Sakowin keeping. (Day 1) negatives of this form of record keeping, and what the people from the winter key elements are in using it. (Day 2) count. (Day 3) Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources The Lakota Way: Stories and https://sdpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/11e492e2- Lessons for Living, Class 027d-4058-9fc4-5ede11f82460/winter-count-lesson- ““ Textbook plans-native-american-studies/#.WxnEqi81TBI Summative Is there only one way to record history? Why were winter counts so important to the Argument Oceti Sakowin people? Performance Task Extension Students will write a paragraph on topic above. Taking Students will share with their families on the importance of preserving winter counts, and why they Informed are important to the Oceti Sakowin people. Action

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