Chapter Chat Week 8 Activities

CC14 Little House on the Prairie – Y5/6, W8 Term 3: Tasks & Questions

Week 8 Term 3: 10th – 14th September: Indians Ride Away – end of book or pages 302- 335

TASKS - Choose from the following...

1. ART – Draw the croaking frogs down by the creek OR draw Pa’s precious fiddle. Add detail and colour.

2. ART- Draw the little Indian baby or papoose in the carry bag that Laura saw OR draw the boat that Mr Edwards planned to make to sail south. Add detail and colour.

3. ART- Draw the crows cawing above the trees along the creek OR draw the Meadow Larks singing in the sky OR draw the wagon and horses going along the track on the creek bottoms. Add detail and colour.

4. RESEARCH- plowing or ploughing. What is it? Why is it necessary? Present your inquiry research for us all to read OR construct a labelled flow diagram of the process of getting a plant to the dinner table (Food process). You may want to construct a food production process for corn.

5. RESEARCH- Native Indians in North America. How is life for these first peoples today? Where do many live? Do they still live in tepees? What other Inquiry questions do you have? Present your findings and share with us all.

6. WRITE- The Ingalls family watched as all of the Indians rode away. The whole family seemed very sad to see the Indians leave. Write why you think that watching the Indians leave makes the Ingalls family so sad.

7. WRITE – your own book review for Little House on the Prairie.

8. DISCUSS/WRITE- The government was sending soldiers to remove settlers (kick them out) from the Indian Territory. Find Independence, Kansas and Washington D.C., on maps. Do you think that being so from the U.S. government made the situation better or worse? Why?

9. I.C.T/HANDS-ON – In groups, plan and make an I-Movie trailer for this book, Little House on the Prairie! Share your trailers with us all.

10. I.C.T- If you made a Kahoot during week 1 or 2, please share the link with us all so others can play. You may like to play some of the public Little House on the Prairie Kahoots that are available.

11. HANDS ON/I.C.T- Make a model of all the new vegetables growing in the garden or draw using a computer design or drawing application.

12. HANDS ON- Pretend your family is moving hundreds of miles away from your current home and your only transportation is a horse pulled wagon, design or build the inside of your wagon, what does it look like? What do you take? No technology- this is the 1800s!

13. I.C.T- If you can watch an episode of the original T.V Movie or perhaps the 2006 Disney version by the same name. Dress up in old style costume and have a shared lunch even. How is the book different / similar to the movie or T.V series? Perhaps have a go at singing ‘Oh Susanna’ or ‘In Dixieland’.

14. VOCABULARY - Find the meanings of the following words: cowered, scalplock, bristled, dangling, emptiness, cawed, crumpled, meekly, scuttled

15. FLIPGRID – What do you think of the Indians as mentioned throughout this story? Do you think they were treated fairly? Can you see any comparisons with the Maori people here in New Zealand? Would you have liked to be an Indian back in those days? Why or why not? Add your thoughts to this FLIPGRID https://flipgrid.com/e6a2b8. PASSWORD – ChapterChatNZ

16. MINECRAFT – Create the surrounding area full of Indians approaching the family OR build Pa plowing the field and ma and the girls planting seeds OR build the new garden of fresh vegetables OR create the wagon travelling along the dried up creek bottoms.

© Mark Lorenzen 2018 / Chapter Chat 2018

SLOW CHAT QUESTION (Posted on Monday morning at 9am)

* The Indians had returned. Why do you think they had returned and what do you think they wanted?

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.

2. Why did the Indians return? What was the thing that Laura saw that made her so happy?

3. Why was all the grass green? Why was Ma amazed with this new sight? How was green grass beneficial for the family?

4. Why did Pa urge Mr Edwards to come with them rather than let him travel in his own boat?

5. Why did the family leave their new home? What did they do to pack everything up? How did Laura feel?

6. Why was a man and a woman sitting on the wagon tongue? What had happened to them and how did Pa help them out?

7. Why were there soldiers at Independence? What were they doing there and why?

8. What do you think Pa means when he said to Ma, “we’re taking more out of Indian country than we brought in”?

9. Our story ends with Laura slowly drifting into sleep to the music of Pa’s fiddle, what do you think will happen next for this family?

10. What specifically did you like about this story? What did you not like? What was the most interesting?

© Mark Lorenzen 2018 / Chapter Chat 2018

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