Homework: Parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework
Option 3: Read the passage and answer questions that follow. Write complete sentences and give evidence from the text to support your points.
Conversation between Mr.P and Junior.
•"When I first started teaching here, that's what we did to the rowdy ones, you know? We beat them. That's how we were taught to teach you. We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child."
•"You killed Indians?"
•"No, no, it's just a saying. I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture." (5.40-5.42)
•1. Teachers not only beat and abused the children, they also stole away their "songs and stories and language and dancing." Which, do you think, would be worse?
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•2. If a teacher told you it was bad to be white, black, Hispanic, Asian or other, would this change the way you thought about yourself?
•3. Do you think these things still happen today or is it a thing of the past? Explain.
Option 2: Read the passage and answer questions that follow. Write complete sentences and give evidence from the text to support your points.
Conversation between Mr.P and Junior.
•"…that's what we did to the rowdy ones, you know? We beat them. .. We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child."
•"You killed Indians?"
•"No, no, it's just a saying. I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture." (5.40-5.42)
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1. What does Mr. P confess to Junior?
2. Why was Mr. P and other teachers treating Indians the way they did?
3. Why do you think Mr. P is telling Junior about these things? What might be his reason? Give examples.
Option 1: Read the passage and answer questions that follow. Write complete sentences and give evidence from the text to support your points.
Conversation between Mr.P and Junior.
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Mr. P: •"…We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child."
1. Why did they have to kill the Indian?
Mr. P: "No, no, it's just a saying. I didn't …kill Indians.
2. What question does Junior ask?
3. What does Mr. P answer?
Espanol: : Lea el pasaje y responder a las preguntas que siguen. Escribir oraciones completas y dar evidencia del texto para apoyar sus puntos.
Conversación entre Mr.P y Junior.
• "... es lo que hicimos a los alborotadores , ¿sabes? Les pegabamos. .. habia que matar al indio para salvar al niño."
• "Usted mató a los indios?"
• "No, no, es sólo un dicho. Yo no mato literalmente indios. Tenia que hacerle renunciar ser indio. Sus canciones y las historias y el lenguaje y el baile. Todo. No estábamos tratando de matar a los indios. estábamos tratando de matar a la cultura india ". (5,40-5,42)
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1. ¿Qué le confiesa el Sr. P a Junior?
2. ¿Por qué el Sr. P y otros maestros trataban de tal manera a los indios?
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3. ¿Por qué cree el Sr. P está le dice a Junior estas cosas? ¿Cuál podría ser la razón? Da ejemplos.
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