University of Chicago Lab School- Ms. Jacobs' Page

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Responding to Native American Unit

During the next weeks of class, we will be investigating the Wampanoags while students in Ms. Anderson's class and Ms.Doyle's class investigate about Pacific Northwest Native Americans and the Cahokians, respectively.

We'll provide questions for consideration and you should respond with questions, comments, or other issues you'd like us to address in class.

9 Comments:

  • 1. Three things I learned are that the seats at the Potlach were organized according to the persons social position. Another fact I learned is that they believed that animals were humans that got scared and ran into the oceans and forests. Also I learned that if a powerful person dies, their slaves would be killed the same way their master died.
    2. Wampanoags also believed that good and bad spirits inhabited that world.
    3. Why did they think that social class was so important?
    4. I thought that their web page was very interesting and had a lot of good information, but I also thought it would have been even better if they put pictures on the web page.
    Great Job!
    Katherine G.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:36 PM  

  • Dear Dave, Mac and Dean,
    Good information! But, who ever did the origins of the chahokians needs more info and their name.
    2 thumbs up
    Jacob C.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:42 PM  

  • Dear Dave, Mac and Dean,
    Good information! But, who ever did the origins of the chahokians needs more info and their name.
    2 thumbs up
    Jacob C.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:42 PM  

  • sup my homebuddies.... i learned three things I learned about Chahokian structures is that they dug holes of where they were going to live and then filled it back up and that after the Europeans came, they built more portable because disease was starting to get their tribes and that they started to use Astronomym, you did great guys!
    The Chosen One (kai)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:28 PM  

  • for daily life three things i'v learned about the Chahokians were very religious, could grow corn to feed around 20,000-40,000 people(WOW!), and that they were economically, culturally, and enviormentally advanced
    Thye Chosen One (kai)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:34 PM  

  • I looked at Daily Life for Ms. Doyle's 8/9.
    1. Three things that i learned about the Cahokians were, one, they lived by the Mississippi River, two, their leader's name was the Great Sun, and three, they Cahokians only ate a small variety of foods.
    2. One similarity between the wampanoags and the cahokians is that they only hunted what they needed. One difference between them is that they lived on different parts of the country.
    3. They should answer: What kind of dances did they do, were the dances religion?
    4. I really like how they used different colors for each of the subtopics. They should have added a title at the very top.
    Kelsea Hoffman

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:28 PM  

  • Review on the religion of the pacific northwest indians.
    I was really impressed by the quality of these articals. All of the articles were well put together and had a lot of things that i had never known before. i had to say that this was a great article and that even if i tried i could never find that amount of info.
    perfect.
    Duncan H.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:34 PM  

  • I looked at the Daily Life from Ms. Anderson's 8/9.
    1. Three things that i learned were, one, they mostly wear clothes made out of cedar bark, two, they take hides made out of walrus or seal, stretch it out and use it as a trampoline, and three, they invented the totem pole.
    2. They are both located by an ocean.
    3. Were the games played by the children, the adult, or both?
    4. They could have used columns to make the text more readable. I liked the background and the text colors.
    Kelsea Hoffman

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:43 PM  

  • the three things I learned was that they had a wall. And that the wall was around the central part of the town. And that they had astronomy

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:23 AM  

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