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Recommended for: Grades 3-8

Resource: Hiawatha

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Media Type:
QuickTime Video

Length: 6m 57s
Size: 19.2 MB

This Weston Woods segment is from the book Hiawatha, illustrated by Susan Jeffers, based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, “The Song of Hiawatha.” Longfellow's poem was published in 1855. An epic poem is a lengthy narrative that includes heroic deeds that had a great impact on a culture. In this case, the poem is about the stories of many Native American Indian tribes, especially the Ojibway Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. This video segment is about a Native American named Hiawatha and his grandmother, Nokomis. As a young boy, Hiawatha learns about all the animals in the forest.

Teachers' Domain, Hiawatha, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.process.hiawatha/

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The following suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

Frame (ELA) Culture and history can influence a story or events. What is meant by the term 'culture'? How would you describe your culture? How might your life be different if you were raised in another culture?

Focus (ELA) Describe the lives of the people depicted in the segment.

Frame (SS) What are some ways a person or a group of people express what is culturally important or valuable to them?

Focus (SS) How do the people in the video segment about Hiawatha express their culture?