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Historical biography is a topic I know will interest my students because learning about individual Native Americans who made a difference in improving their tribe regarding family needs, cultural and language preservation, police brutality in border towns and urban cities, and working the BIA. These Native Americans have stepped up and informed the public and the world about the treatment of their tribes.
I chose the topic of AIM because they helped struggling native families across the nation. When native people needed help, they called the AIM leaders, and they would come. I want my students to read, write, and view video clips about the AIM leaders and how they overcame their obstacles and stepped up to overcome their struggles for their tribe. In our Diné culture, we tell our students, “T’aa hwo ajit’eeh go adoolneel,” meaning it is up to you to decide what needs to be done or do what you need to do.
I will use various classroom strategies and activities to help students comprehend the content with engaging stories about these leaders. In addition, strategies and activities like scaffolding, frontloading information, pictorial visuals, repetitive phrases, chunking information, color-coding and songs, rap, & chants in Diné will help students stay focused and engaged. Using these classroom approaches will help the student absorb and remember the content while learning about the content. When I teach these strategies, I create and use colorful graphic organizers with thoughtful, engaging examples of various topics.
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