| Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™ |
| Osage Orange Tree |
| NDNAEU 3 “Sharing & Generosity” |
| Compelling Question | After reading “The Osage Orange Tree” by William Stafford, can we appreciate the significance that generosity and caring play within a community? |
| Standards and Practices | Key Ideas and Details 6 RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and explain how it is conveyed through particular details. |
| Staging the Question | How can you show that you care for someone else? Can you describe a time that you helped another person in your community? What community project can be planned to get students involved in volunteering? |
| Supporting Question 1 | Supporting Question 2 |
| How does someone “connect” with another person? In The Mishomis book Nanaboozhoo is connected to several animals. How do those relationships relate to American Indian and western view of pets? | What are specific ways that I can be generous to another person so that he or she can feel part of a group? How can we connect to animals and human beings together in relationship building? |
| Formative Performance Task | Formative Performance Task |
| Watch Debbe Poitra’s interview called “Someone Cares for You,” and journal briefly about what it takes to make a true connection with another person. Have a circle discussion with classmates. | Sketch a scene of a student demonstrating sharing or generosity to make another student feel welcome. Have students develop a poster with family illustrating how they show generosity and sharing within family and or community or animals. |
| Featured Sources | Featured Sources |
| Video Interview with Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa elder Debbe Poitra https://teachingsofourelders.org/essential-understanding3-debbe-poitra/ | The Mishomis Book Eddie Benton – Benai –Barnes and Noble Ch. 2, 7, 8 Read these chapters to find connection and how Nanaboozhoo learned life lessons from the animals. |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Supported Claim (written/spoken) or Demonstration of Process (project-based) | Develop a media presentation that provides examples of students displaying sharing and generosity, and present it to the class. Community service volunteer project would be great to video for class assignment. |
| SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK: Extension | Research historical examples of how Native Americans exhibited sharing and generosity, and write a paragraph summarizing your findings. 500 word concept essay to include a cover page connecting the relationship of the animal world and the human beings, (American Indians). |
| Taking Informed Action / Real World Application | Have lunch with another student who oftentimes sits by him or herself. Plan a field trip to the animal shelter on the reservation to see how animals are cared for and what happens to them once there. Prepare questions before visiting the animal shelter. |
