Native+American+Projects

= NATIVE AMERICAN REQUIRED PROJECT and EXTRA CREDIT OPTIONS =

1. Region Project ( Required - due Monday, December 13, 2010 ): The work for this project will be completed at home for the most part. You may choose how you complete this project, but the following items must be included in your project. Possible project ideas: PowerPoint, Photo Story, poster board, booklet, map project, etc. - Again, it has to be done in a way that you can complete at home!


 * Select **at least** **four** of the six Native American cultural regions.
 * Include a map that shows where the regions you have selected are located in North America. This should be in color and labeled appropriately.
 * Compare and Contrast the regions. This means that you must show how these regions are similar **and** how they are different. How you do this is up to you.
 * Pick one of the regions you selected. Write an essay, at least 5 paragraphs (beginning, 3 middle paragraphs, closing) explaining why you think this region would have been the best one OR the worst one for the Native Americans to live in during the time just before the Pilgrims arrived.
 * 2. Wampum necklace** (optional - just for fun): Cannot be done until all region packets have been turned in. Ms. C will supply the materials you need to do this. Cut a piece of string long enough to hang around your neck. Using no more than 15 beads, make you own design for your Wampum necklace. According to the Eastern Woodlands, this will help bring you peace. Enjoy!

3. **Extra Credit:** Select a book about the Native Americans to read. Prepare a presentation summarizing what you learned in the book. Possible Ideas: book report, posterboard presentation, PowerPoint, Photo Story, etc. 4. **Extra Credit:** Write a story from the point of view of a Native American. Make sure you select a specific region for the setting of the story. The story can be hand written or completed on the computer.

This is just a suggestion that you might want to try as you gather your information together for this part of your project. You can print out the graphic organizer (Word 2003) or PDF. Then below, is an example filled out by Ms. C of what it might look like.
 * Graphic Organizer for planning the part on comparing and contrasting. **

Word 2003 version PDF file

I used a yellow hightlighter that did not come out as well as the orange. My idea was to highlight in yellow some of the common things I saw in at least 3 of my regions. Then with an orange highlighter, I tried to mark some things that were different (maybe between two regions and the other two regions).