NOTABLE SOUTH DAKOTANS TEACHER’S GUIDE
Standards Used:
Lesson 1: Oscar Micheaux and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Oscar Micheaux
4.US.2.1
Homesteading
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
4.US.2.1 Treaties with Native Americans
4.US.2.2 Reservations; effects on Native American culture
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
Lesson 2: Peter Norbeck and Mary Shields Pyle
Peter Norbeck
4.US.1.2 Water and farming issues
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
4.G.1.1 Black Hills; Custer State Park
Mary Shields Pyle
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
4.C.2.1 Women’s right to vote
Lesson 3: Charles Badger Clark, Jr., and Ida Anding McNeil
Charles Badger Clark, Jr.
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
Ida Anding McNeil
4.US.1.1 Rural areas and communication
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
Lesson 4: Oscar Howe and Francis Higbee Case
Oscar Howe
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakota
4.US.2.2 Reservations; effects on Native American culture
Francis Higbee Case
4.US.2.3 Notable South Dakotan
4.G.1.2 Missouri River dams; Black Hills
4.E.1.1 Black Hills Tourism
Time:
Four class periods, thirty minutes each
Lesson 1: Oscar Micheaux and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Lesson 2: Peter Norbeck and Mary Shields Pyle
Background Information:
Reading Level measured by the Flesch-Kincaid scale: 5.0
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