Unit 7

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

Lesson 3: Charles Badger Clark, Jr., and Ida Anding McNeil

Lesson 4: Oscar Howe and Francis Higbee Case

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Reading Level measured by the Flesch-Kincaid scale: 5.0

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