FRIDAY -- All classes caught up to the same point of completion, finishing adding EQ bullet points from "The Frontier" and "The Ways of The Cowboy" and adding bullet points from "Dr. Jean Griffith" context page and Brenda Child's article. Split into 3 medium-sized groups, students collaborated to close-read Louise Erdrich's poem "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" -- "translate" each line onto a piece of your own paper so that you will be able to explain the poem, piece by piece to another student. Finally, students were provided "Erdrich Poem Close Read Expert Help" with insights from Dr. Jean Griffith specific to this poem -- use this to edit your translations. We then discussed the poem as a whole class for further edits and added EQ bullet points that we learned from the poem.
