Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Lesson Plan

Chapters 14-18

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.5

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Chapters 14-19

These final chapters deal with the efforts of the United States government to move tribes to the Indian Territory, with varying levels of success. The Cheyennes are given the chance to inspect the territory, and they believe they have the right to return to their ancestral...