Lesson / Document · South Dakota · OSEU 4
Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Listening & observation, Intergenerational learning
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Waterlily: Elements of a Story” | OSEU 4: Kinship & Harmony
Compelling
What elements make up a story?
Question
Listen to and discuss a novel.
Explore narrative text structure through discussions of plot, setting, character, conflict, and theme.
Standards and
Practices Use questioning to think about narrative text.
Staging the Who helps you in your day-to-day life? What are things you can do on your own? Do you treat
Question everyone the same? Why? Why not?
Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3
How does the setting affect the plot How do the characters affect the How does kinship effect the plot of the
of the story? plot of the story? story?
Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task
1. How does Blue Bird’s first
1. What is the setting of the husband’s personality
story? affect her life? 1. Watch and discuss the videos, “Hunka
2. What are some challenges 2. How would you describe Relatives” with Stephanie Charging
the characters have living on Waterlily? Eagle and “Great-Great Grandparents”
the plains? Who shares those 3. How does Waterlily change with Delores Taken Alive.
challenges? throughout the story?
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Waterlily by Ella Deloria Double-journal entry
Waterlily, Ella Deloria
Waterlily, Ella Deloria
Choose a character from Waterlily and construct a written argument that addresses the
Summative Argument
question: How does this character affect the plot of Waterlily?
Performance
Task What was the characters’ initial reaction when they encounter white men? How does
Extension
early settler expansion influence the thiospaye?
Taking Informed
Understand—Res
Action