LEARNING OUTCOMES & ASSESSMENTS
The following table uses a reverse-engineered design method to show how The Myth of the Vanishing Race supports student achievement of the stated learning outcomes. For each outcome listed below, a coinciding assessment is designed based on their engagement in the associated activity, as well as content the student should explore before and during the activity. The assessments ask students to integrate what they have read, viewed, and heard--including how individual video clips containing photographs and inscriptions, documents, author quotations, and Indigenous methods for understanding American history-- in ways that showcase their achievement of the learning outcomes.
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Native America Before European Contact
summarize how Native Americans, before European contact were advance in farming, trade, and constructed road systems throughout what is now America.
discuss how Native Americans were advanced in farming technology, travel and trade infrastructure.
discuss and complete worksheet on Native America before European contact.
PDF Native America before Contact: worksheet Native America before contact; media access.
American Historical Authors
deconstruct The Myth of the Vanishing Race and explain how and why it has been perpetuated in American history.
examine and debate documents, producing a written report explaining how The Myth of the Vanishing Race”has been perpetuated in American History.
discuss The Myth of the Vanishing Race based on documents explaining how it has been perpetuated.
PDF excerpts from American historical authors and worksheet; media access.
Native Americans & Edward S. Curtis
assess photographs and writings of Native Americans and their role in how history is remembered, written about, and taught.
analyze photographs and writings of Native Americans comparing them with the Edward S. Curtis mythology of a Vanishing Race.
use literal observation and interpretation phase while discussing the Native American view on the Photographs of Edward S. Curtis.
PDF document and worksheet and media access.
Native American Perspective
assess how historiography should include the Native Americans beyond the 19th century through documents, and media by Native Americans.
compare and contrast the Indigenous perspectives and the western academic approach to The Myth of the Vanishing Race.
use literal observation and interpretation phase while discussing the legacy of Edward S. Curtis and Native Americans.
PDF documents and worksheet, media access.
Photographs & Visual Learning
assess the relationship between the photograph and the Native Americans photographed through the lens of visual literacy.
review photographs and documents related to photographs and work in pairs to discuss the inferences made by photographs and documents. (Full class discussion will follow).
use Think, Pair, Share and build visual literacy while discussing interpretations of photographs and documents.
PDF documents photographs, documents, and media access, worksheet.
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Historiography
define what historiography is and how it has shaped the perception of how history is remembered, written about, and taught.
write a summary report defining historiography and how it shapes the way history is written and remembered
define historiography, giving examples of how it has shaped the way history is written and remembered.
Media access, documents,
Why Study Historiography with Alan Ford;
Historiography definition PDF and PDF worksheet.