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Compelling question
What’s in a name?
Standards & practices
OSEUS 2.3: Recognize that there is a continuum of tribal identity, ranging from assimilated to
traditional lifestyle, that includes each unique subculture or individual member within the
Oceti Sakowin.
8.H.5.2: Generate questions to analyze why individuals or groups, and their developments,
are seen as historically significant
8.C.1.2: Explain how government decisions impact people, places, and history
8.C.1.3: Explain the ways in which governments meet the needs of citizens, manage conflict,
and establish order and security
Staging the question
Why might it be important to have a naming ceremony?
Why do people give gifts and have give-aways?
Supporting inquiries
Supporting question 1
What is the meaning and story behind your name?
Formative performance task
Using the state library and Ancestory.com develop a
genealogy chart of your family.
Write a paragraph about why you were given the name
you were given after interviewing your
parent(s)/guardian(s) and/or your grandparent(s).
Featured sources
Video Resource:
http://lc-triballegacy.org/video.php?vid=999&query=I
http://www.ancestryclassroom.com/
Supporting question 2
Is there a purpose of giving gifts or give-aways?
Formative performance task
Develop a list of example give-aways that reflect the
Lakota value system.
Create a paragraph or short essay on how you demonstrate the meaning,
value, and characteristic behind your given name.
Determine if you give or how you can give significance to your name.
Extension
Why might children have been named these traditional “birth-order”
names instead of receiving a unique name right from birth?
What’s special about NOT receiving a name until later, at a special time?
Taking informed action
Where did your last/surname originate? Using your Ancestory.com genealogy chart, how
many generations can you go back where your last/surname is the same as yours?
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Names” | OSEU 2: Identity & Resiliency
Compelling Question
What’s in a name?
Standards and
Practices
OSEUS 2.3: Recognize that there is a continuum of tribal identity, ranging from assimilated to
traditional lifestyle, that includes each unique subculture or individual member within the
Oceti Sakowin.
8.H.5.2: Generate questions to analyze why individuals or groups, and their developments,
are seen as historically significant
8.C.1.2: Explain how government decisions impact people, places, and history
8.C.1.3: Explain the ways in which governments meet the needs of citizens, manage conflict,
and establish order and security
Staging the Question
Why might it be important to have a naming ceremony?
Why do people give gifts and have give-aways?
Supporting Question 1
Supporting Question 2
What is the meaning and story behind your name?
Is there a purpose of giving gifts or give-aways?
Formative Performance Task
Formative Performance Task
Using the state library and Ancestory.com develop a
genealogy chart of your family.
Write a paragraph about why you were given the name
you were given after interviewing your
parent(s)/guardian(s) and/or your grandparent(s).
Develop a list of example give-aways that reflect the
Lakota value system.
Featured Sources
Featured Sources
Video Resource:
http://lc-triballegacy.org/video.php?vid=999&query=I
http://www.ancestryclassroom.com/
http://www.wolakotaproject.org/wp-
content/uploads/2015/02/Remembering-Lakota-
Ways.pdf
Summative
Performance Task
Argument
Create a paragraph or short essay on how you demonstrate the meaning,
value, and characteristic behind your given name.
Determine if you give or how you can give significance to your name.
Extension
Why might children have been named these traditional “birth-order”
names instead of receiving a unique name right from birth?
What’s special about NOT receiving a name until later, at a special time?
Taking Informed
Action
Where did your last/surname originate? Using your Ancestory.com genealogy chart, how
many generations can you go back where your last/surname is the same as yours?