The Night Watchman Lesson Plan

Land Acknowledgements

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will create a land acknowledgement.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

Structure:

In this activity, students will work independently to write a land acknowledgement. Explain to students that it is important to remember and respect American Indians on days other than Indigenous Peoples Day. Describe a land acknowledgement. Feel free to use these words: A land acknowledgment is a written or spoken statement that acknowledges the Indigenous peoples that lived on, worked on, cared for, and are part of the land. Sometimes this is a very official sounding statement, like the one at...