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Returning To Red Cloud's Vision: An Analysis Of The History Of Native American Education On The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Nicholas Machado
Returning To Red Cloud's Vision: An Analysis Of The History Of Native American Education On The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Nicholas Machado
Honors Program Theses and Projects
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Literature Of The First Encounters: Using Self-Immersion In The Scholarly Study Of First Encounter Texts To Develop A Fifth Grade Text Set, Angela Skrabec
Literature Of The First Encounters: Using Self-Immersion In The Scholarly Study Of First Encounter Texts To Develop A Fifth Grade Text Set, Angela Skrabec
Honors Program Theses and Projects
This interdisciplinary research project integrated training and techniques from two disciplines: English and Elementary Education. The purpose of the project was to immerse myself in the scholarly study of First Encounter (encounter between the natives and English settlers in the New World) texts in order to create a fifth grade text set, a selection of approximately 20-25 quality children’s books that represent a diverse range of reading levels and genres. My research entailed reading a variety of First Encounter literatures and using New Historicism to analyze each as part of my English scholarship. In addition, after reviewing research on literacy …