Motorcycles & Sweetgrass -- Drew Hayden Taylor
- Word Document File
- Easel Assessment
Description
Greetings,
Drew Hayden Taylor’s novel, Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, is a delightful story featuring a famous Indigenous Trickster character -- Nanabush. The story revolves around thirteen-year old Virgil Second, his grandmother, mother, uncle and others on the Otter Lake Reserve. Humour, suspense, mystery, mischief and misdirection abound, along with empathy, grace, wonder and wisdom.
This 216-page resource covers all four strands: reading, writing, oral, and media. It develops your students’ critical thinking and creative communication through a Student Workbook and the Multiple Intelligences Process. It also saves you time and energy that can then assist you to do what teachers do best – explore, engage, enrich.
Students have multiple ways to increase and showcase their learning.
* Complete the Student Workbook (11-139),
* Creatively engage in the Multiple Intelligences Project (8-10), and
* Complete some other form or forms of assessment and evaluation: Multiple Choice, Agree or Disagree -- Explain, and Essay (140-172).
Was that a ’53 Indian Chief Motorcycle that just roared by with a stranger shouting, “I’m back”? Whatever, smell that sweetgrass. Breathe it in deeply. And keep your head up and eyes open for racoons.
As John would say, “Ga-waabamin.”
PACKAGE CONTENTS
Cover Page 1
Introduction 2
Resource Contents 3
Three Background Resources 4
Novel Table of Contents with Suggested Titles 5-6
Suggestions to Teacher 7-10
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STUDENT WORKBOOK 11-139
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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PROJECT 8-10
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FURTHER EVALUATION OPTIONS 140-172
Covers all four strands rooted in Critical and Creative Thinking: Oral, Reading, Writing, Media
100 Multiple-Choice Questions Test and Answer Key 142-162
Knowledge Base: Have they read the novel, and do they have the facts to support their ideas?
Agree or Disagree -- Explain 163-169
Best Midway Thinking-Writing Evaluation
Essay Prompts -- 170-172
Higher Order Thinking and Application of Learning
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APPENDIX 173-216
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass -- Word Search Answer Key 174
Literary Devices -- Word Search Answer Key 175
Indigenous Studies Resources 176
Top Ten Teaching Tips 177-216
Your purchase entitles you to use this resource in your classroom. I hope it brings a smile to your face and a hop to your step. If colleagues remark on the smile and hop, tell him/her/they about the resource, and let them know where they can buy it. Thank you for your interest and help.
I have added a 24-page Preview to help ensure that it is a fit with your classroom situation.
Keep Hoping and Hopping!
Dr Frogley Ribbit Research
Joy is the mark of true of learning.
:)
