Social Studies--Encounters

We began a new unit on Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans today. We'll also be learning how they survived with so much less than we did. The Guided Reading is connected to this social studies unit. As a class we're reading Sign of the Beaver, which presents the viewpoint that the Europeans had much to learn from the Native Americans. Three guided reading groups are reading books about how the Cherokees and Navajos were shamefully relocated. One guided reading group is reading a book about Sacajawea--a Native American who led Lewis and Clark. This book shows how some people tried to have positive and honorable encounters with the native Americans or First Nation Peoples.