The Stone Angel Lesson Plan

Discovering Manitoba and its racial and economic history (Part 3)

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will focus and synthesize their research into a final presentation

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

Structure:

Students will take their research notes and focus on one narrower topic in their findings, doing further research on this topic (i.e. the Métis people, a comparison of mixed-race discrimination in the U.S. and Canada, effects of the Great Depression on individual versus large-scale farmers, etc.). Findings should be formatted using presentation software (Powerpoint, Prezi) with a variety of multimedia sources (photographs,...