Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing
the Native Spirit
Exchange Journals |
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Using the pictures you have observed and the information
you have collected on the Resources for Exchange
Journal Page, select one person whose identify you would like to assume.
Learn as much as you can about this person and the type of life he or
she lived at this time. Use the American
Memory collections to research a variety of search words and phrases
to help you discover more about your person or people in the same position.
Use your observations and your interpretations. Try to think and act as
your assumed identity would have during this time period. Determine the
following about your chosen person.
- What did your person think about American Indian
boarding schools?
- What job or relationship did your person have
with American Indian boarding schools? For example, Was he or she a
student, parent of a student, a teacher, a Superintendent or an Administrator
of a school, or a government official?
- What word would your person have used in describing
American Indian boarding schools? Remember to use words that would have
been used in the 1800s and early 1900s.
- What experiences did your person have with
American Indian boarding schools? Imagine what their life would have
been like as they went about their daily routines. Did their lives change
because of the schools? What were they trying to accomplish?
- What did your person like about the American
Indian boarding schools?
- What did your person dislike about the American
Indian boarding schools?
After you have learned more about your person by answering the questions,
you will assume the role of this person and write as he or she would have
written in a journal. Entries in your journal will begin with a response
to a daily question and then you may continue with your own entries.
Your journal will be given to another who has assumed the role of a different
person. This student will respond to your journal entry as his or
her character would have responded. We will have several exchanges.
Be careful to stay in character when you write.
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