November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. Native Americans have shaped the country's history in every field, from exploring and medicine to sports, dance, engineering and space flight. Each person here is named with their own nation.
Six pages of short lives. Pages 1 to 3 each have two short biographies with two questions each: Sacagawea and Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree; Jim Thorpe, the Olympic champion, and the ballerina Maria Tallchief; and the engineer Mary Golda Ross and the astronaut John Herrington. Page 4 matches "Who am I?" clues to the six people. Page 5 is a timeline from 1800 to 2010, and page 6 a page to plan a short biography of one of them, or of another Native American.
Read one page a day during November. After page 4, children can write "Who am I?" clues of their own for a classmate to solve. Page 6 works as the start of a research project: let children choose someone from the nation whose land your school is on.
Read a biography together and look for more about that person, such as pictures of Maria Tallchief dancing or John Herrington in space.
Short biographies of six Native Americans, from Sacagawea to the astronaut John Herrington, each named with their nation. Children read and answer questions, solve "Who am I?" clues, read a timeline and plan a biography of their own.
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