Topic of your Task: The Cherokee Indians.
Time Frame: 2 days
Essential Question: How can the life and culture of the Cherokee Indians be shown in a pictograph?
SC Social Studies Standards: 3.2.1 Compare the culture and physical environment of the major Native American Tribal groups of South Carolina, including the Cherokee.
SC Science Standard: 2.1.3 Represent and communicate simple data and explanations through drawings, tables, pictographs, bar graphs, and oral and written language.
CCR Standards: Reading Anchor Standards 1 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6 & 8
Your task: Imagine that you are a famous cartoonist for the Georgetown Times. You have been asked by the Mayor to draw a pictograph for the newspaper that looks like an ancient drawing by a Cherokee Indian. The mayor wants this pictograph, or kind of diagram using pictures or symbols that tells a story, to be about something that might have happened when the Cherokee Indians lived in South Carolina long ago. The story could be about things they did to get food, what the children did, something that happened to the Indians, how or where they lived, but it must be based on facts.
Steps you will be following: In order to plan and draw your pictograph, you will do all of the following:
1) Click on the short report on the resources page (or just click on the words "short report" in this sentence) and read the information about the Cherokee that a student wrote. As you read, take dash notes, looking for specific evidence to support the "facts" in your pictograph.
2) Look at the pictograph example on the resources page as well as the drawing on that page and the picture on this page. Take dash notes about what you see.
3) Organize your information, plan, and draw your pictograph using details ('evidence') from your notes.
4) You will want to refer to your notes while drawing your pictograph. You can re-read the article and re-look at the drawing, pictures, and pictograph example as much as you need to.
Here's a link to the Resources Page for the Cherokee Indians.
Time Frame: 2 days
Essential Question: How can the life and culture of the Cherokee Indians be shown in a pictograph?
SC Social Studies Standards: 3.2.1 Compare the culture and physical environment of the major Native American Tribal groups of South Carolina, including the Cherokee.
SC Science Standard: 2.1.3 Represent and communicate simple data and explanations through drawings, tables, pictographs, bar graphs, and oral and written language.
CCR Standards: Reading Anchor Standards 1 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6 & 8
Your task: Imagine that you are a famous cartoonist for the Georgetown Times. You have been asked by the Mayor to draw a pictograph for the newspaper that looks like an ancient drawing by a Cherokee Indian. The mayor wants this pictograph, or kind of diagram using pictures or symbols that tells a story, to be about something that might have happened when the Cherokee Indians lived in South Carolina long ago. The story could be about things they did to get food, what the children did, something that happened to the Indians, how or where they lived, but it must be based on facts.
Steps you will be following: In order to plan and draw your pictograph, you will do all of the following:
1) Click on the short report on the resources page (or just click on the words "short report" in this sentence) and read the information about the Cherokee that a student wrote. As you read, take dash notes, looking for specific evidence to support the "facts" in your pictograph.
2) Look at the pictograph example on the resources page as well as the drawing on that page and the picture on this page. Take dash notes about what you see.
3) Organize your information, plan, and draw your pictograph using details ('evidence') from your notes.
4) You will want to refer to your notes while drawing your pictograph. You can re-read the article and re-look at the drawing, pictures, and pictograph example as much as you need to.
Here's a link to the Resources Page for the Cherokee Indians.