I understand what you mean. I think children need to know about this event in history. It's not pretty, and they need to know that our history includes shameful events such as this.
ljackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Recently I was able to tour the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home outside of Nashville, Tennessee. I had read Irving Stone's The President's Lady years ago and thoroughly delighted in the opportunity to walk into history a bit. However, I was so disappointed by the museum. A great deal of display space was devoted to slave life on the Hermitage, but try as I might, I could fins so very little related to the Trail of Tears. When I asked a docent, they pointed out one very small (think 5x7) plaque with a brief blurb that basically glossed it over BIG TIME. As a teacher of Native American children, I found this insulting and was quite disappointed. Lori On 11/29/06 4:32 PM, "Joy" wrote: > We're revisiting Determining Importance this week by doing a Textmapping > project using a short book about the Trail of Tears. The groups were actively > engaged in determining importance like I've never seen them before. Today we > highlighted text features like italics and bold print. Tomorrow we will > highlight names of people, places, and geographic features (rivers, lakes, > mountains, etc.). Friday we are going to highlight the problems encountered by > the Cherokee, and the solutions, if any. Then we are going to create story > bags using icons the students will create to signify their own imaginary > journey along the Trail of Tears. > > > > Joy/NC/4 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content > go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute "Literate Lives: A Human Right" July 12-15, 2007 Louisville, Kentucky http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/wlu _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. Joy/NC/4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org --------------------------------- Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
