Middle school collection; specific grade not stated.
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Compelling question
Where do you come from?
Standards & practices
OSEU 2 Identity & Resiliency
Staging the question
Interes-t Inventory Sheet to highlight each student’s likes and dislikes – then have them move to
particular places in the room to create a list of different types of that favorite thing. Pizza for
example, cheese, supreme, Hawaiian, pepperoni, etc.
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
What is unique about your
community?
Formative performance task
Brain storm both positive and negative
qualities about community.
Featured sources
Pride In Where I Come From-Victor
Douville
Supporting question 2
How does your experience connect
you to your family, your community,
your state?
Formative performance task
Draw a picture to illustrate your
poem that highlights a cherished
memory.
Featured sources
I am From poetry-various sources
Supporting question 3
Why do we need to know who/what
we came from in order to grow and
develop today?
Formative performance task
Ask an elder what they think about
knowing history and what youth will
need to move forward.
Featured sources
We Are Not All the Same-Lowell
Amiotte
Summative performance task · Argument
Nothing matters, nothing will change and I do not have power or opportunity to
change.
Extension
Stages of life, cycles of seasons, change happens all of the time-learn and grow, you
have the power and opportunity to be an agent of change.
Taking informed action
Students will write, revise, and publish their own I Am From poems.
Elder sources included in this lesson
No specific Elder video could be matched to the archived lesson’s source references.
Also named in the source: Lowell Amiotte, Victor Douville. A specific video was not identified for these references.
Original text & supporting materials
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 1: Lands & Environment
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 2: Identity & Resiliency
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 3: Culture & Language
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 4: Kinship & Harmony
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 5: Oral Tradition & Story
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 6: Sovereignty & Treaties
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 7: Way of Life & Development
Compelling
Question
Where do you come from?
Standards and
Practices
OSEU 2 Identity & Resiliency
Staging the
Question
Interes-t Inventory Sheet to highlight each student’s likes and dislikes – then have them move to
particular places in the room to create a list of different types of that favorite thing. Pizza for
example, cheese, supreme, Hawaiian, pepperoni, etc.
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
Supporting Question 3
What is unique about your
community?
How does your experience connect
you to your family, your community,
your state?
Why do we need to know who/what
we came from in order to grow and
develop today?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Brain storm both positive and negative
qualities about community.
Draw a picture to illustrate your
poem that highlights a cherished
memory.
Ask an elder what they think about
knowing history and what youth will
need to move forward.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Pride In Where I Come From-Victor
Douville
I am From poetry-various sources
We Are Not All the Same-Lowell
Amiotte
Summative
Performance
Task
Argument
Nothing matters, nothing will change and I do not have power or opportunity to
change.
Extension
Stages of life, cycles of seasons, change happens all of the time-learn and grow, you
have the power and opportunity to be an agent of change.
Taking Informed
Action
Students will write, revise, and publish their own I Am From poems.