Todd County Middle School · OSEU 4 · Reading

Estimated Use: Last 2 weeks of Quarter 2 – near beginning of January – approximately 6-8 days Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ “The Friendship” | OSEU 4: Kinship & Harmony Compelling After reading “The Friendship” by Mildred D. Taylor, can we appreciate the significance that kinship Question can play within a community? Standards and 7.RL.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the Practices characters or plot). Staging the How can you show that you care for someone else? Can you describe a time that you helped another Question person in your community? What would community kinship look like in our area? Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3 How does someone connect with What are specific ways that I can be another person? In The Friendship How does this type of kinship affect the generous to another person so that he Mr. Tom Bee has a personal community around the main or she can feel part of a community? connection to John Wallace. How characters? How can we bring harmony to our does that relationship affect the community through kinship? behavior of those two men? Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Do a close read of pages 37-39 of Brainstorm ways that others have Watch both linked videos below and The Friendship. Look for evidence shown generosity to you in the last few journal briefly about one of the of the connection between the days. Map out people you come in provided questions (questions are on two men. Make a cause and effect contact with frequently that would links below videos). Have a table line that shows how their kinship benefit from acts of generosity from discussion with classmates. has affected their behaviors. you. Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu- four/oseu-four-interview-with-gladys- http://www.wolakotaproject.org/oseu- Text of The Friendship by Mildred hawk/ four/oseu-four-interview-with- D. Taylor stephanie-charging-eagle/ Create a comic strip that shows ways that kinship could bring harmony to this community. Use real locations, include self as a character, and show evidence of a Summative realistic plan for implementing generosity and harmony. Performance Research historical examples of how Native Americans exhibited kinship, generosity, Task and harmony. Write a compare and contrast essay that shows the similarities and Extension differences in showing harmony in the Native culture vs the actions learned about in the cultures of 1930s Mississippi (the setting of the novel). Taking Make a connection with a student at school that you’ve never spoken to before. Have a Informed conversation, work on a group project, eat lunch together, or include them in a new activity. Action