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Fifth Grade

Fifth Grade


Unit 1: Native American History Activities Menu

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Activity 1: Samuel's Story. "Samuel Cloud turned 9 years old on the Trail of Tears. Samuel's Memory is told by his great-great grandson, Michael Rutledge, in his paper Forgiveness in the Age of Forgetfulness. Michael, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is a law student at Arizona State University." (external site) HTML
  Description of Removal Policy for reading aloud (external site) HTML
  Indian Removal Policy 1814 - 1858. Teacher's Background Guide. (external site) HTML
  Cherokee Removal Orders. For teachers to excerpt and read aloud (external site) HTML
Activity 2: 1851 Indian Appropriations Act PDF
Activity 3: Native American Culture (external site) HTML
  Tribes-by-States Map Index (external site) HTML

 

Reservation Maps, National NAGPRA: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (external site) HTML
  Reservation Maps, U.S. Federal and State Indian Reservations (external site) HTML
  Indian Reservations, U.S. Census Bureau American Indians Reservations Map (external PDF) PDF
Activity 4: Hampton Students Reservation Memories PDF
  "Adjustment to a settled way of life was especially difficult for the nomadic Plains Indians...." HTML
  "The Apache tribe was the last to surrender to government control in the 1880s...." HTML
Activity 5: Dawes Act of 1887 PDF
  Problems Inherent in the Dawes Act PDF
  Dawes Act - Summation PDF
Activity 6: Brief description of the Carlisle School PDF
  Primary Sources For Activity Six HTML
Activity 7: Indian Reorganization Act PDF
  Wheeler - Howard Indian Reorganization Act 1934 PDF
  Autobiographical Descriptions of Native life in the early 20th Century (external site reproduction) HTML
Activity 8: Tribes Today HTML


Unit 2: WWII Home Front Activities Menu

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The following links are will take you to web pages with the primary resources for each activity. Please refer to the Lesson Plans for the remaining activities for the WW II Home Front History Unit.
Activity 4: Industrial Production Kicks Into High Gear HTML
Activity 5: The War Effort HTML
Activity 8: Japanese Internment HTML