CC14 Little House on the Prairie – Y5/6, W6 Term 3: Tasks & Questions
Week 6 Term 3: 27th – 31st August: Pa goes to Town – A Scream in the Night or pages 208 - 252
TASKS - Choose from the following...
1. ART - Draw Mr Edwards on top of the woodpile and Jack trying to climb up to get him. Add plenty of detail and colour.
2. ART: Draw the Indian camp in the shelter on the bluffs. Add plenty of detail and colour.
3. ART: Draw one of the Indians. Add detail and colour.
4. MAKE your own treaty between the Indians and the settlers.
5. WRITE: When Pa goes to town, Jack is left behind to help protect the family, and he takes his job seriously. Writing from Jack’s point of view, write about the 4 days that Pa was gone. Describe what happened by explaining who visited, what the girls and Ma did, and how Jack felt about all of these things. Be sure to use at least 5 specific details from the story to create your paragraph.
6. RESEARCH: Osage Indians. See the image attached to this post. You may like to visit, http://www.uark.edu/depts/contact/osage.html. Write some OSAGE FAST FACTS.
7. DISCUSS: Mrs Scott’s attitude towards Indians was typical of the time – ‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian’. How have our attitudes to native peoples changed today- why? How are native peoples around the world treated today? – perhaps do some research.
8. MAKE a model of one of the shops in Independence.
9. DESIGN something to trap an Indian to prevent them from stealing your property/possessions.
10. VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words: acquainted, sober, massacre, contradicted, shawl, tarnation, scalplock, treed.
11. FLIPGRID – Why is it important that we treat the native people / first peoples of our land with respect and care? Why do you think this did not happen so much in Laura’s days? Add your thoughts to this FLIPGRID https://flipgrid.com/90d369 PASSWORD - ChapterChatNZ
12. MINECRAFT – Build the town of Independence with the old shops, perhaps even design the inside of one of the shops OR build the environment – the prairie and the animals in winter. Add details.
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SLOW CHAT QUESTION (Posted on Monday morning at 9am)
* Why did Pa have to go to town? How would you cope if one of your parents went away for three days?
FRIDAY TWITTER CHAT QUESTIONS
1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week. Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.
1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week. Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.
2. What is the weather like as Christmas gets closer? Why does this worry Laura and Mary?
3. Who arrives on Christmas morning? What does the guest bring with him?
4. What did the girls receive for Christmas? What did they think of their gifts? What do you think of their gifts?
5. What are your family’s favourite holiday traditions?
6. Laura and Mary had to do chores. What chores do you have to do each day or week? Do you like doing them? Why or why not?
7. Why did the Indians take some of Pa’s things? Should they have tried to stop them?
8. Why were they thankful that the Indians did not take the plow and the seeds?
9. Why did the government order the Indians to move west? Was this the right thing to do- why or why not? Explain.
10. Why was Mr Edwards all wet? What surprisingly thing did he do for the Ingalls family?
© Mark Lorenzen 2018 / Chapter Chat 2018
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