Read Crossing Bok Chitto
Crossing Bok Chitto Social Studies/Music PD w/ Jadyn Harris
Early Elementary Suggested Driving Questions, to ask after (or even before) reading:
- Do you have the right to walk anywhere you want to in this country?
- What are the responsibilities of adults in a family? What about the responsibilities of children?
- Can you describe how the characters in the story showed responsibilities?
- Can you describe some rights that you feel were or were not honored in the story?
- Describe some feelings that you or the characters felt during certain scenes in the story.
- In what ways are Little Mo’s family similar to Martha Tom’s family? How are they different? Consider the circumstances in which they live.
- How are these families similar to, and different from, your own family?
- Have you ever been to a wedding? Was there music? What kind? Was there traditional music?
Later Elementary Suggested Driving Questions, to ask after (or even before) reading:
- Do you have the right to walk anywhere you want to in this country?
- How have stereotypes and/or (mis)perceptions shaped our realities? (3rd Gr Unit 1)
- How are injustice and unfairness effectively overcome? (5th Gr Unit 4)
- Describe some feelings that you or the characters felt during certain scenes in the story.
- How are the characters/circumstances in the story similar to, or different from, your own?
- How did groups of people work together in this story to create equality? (modified 3rd Gr Unit 3)
- What causes people or groups to treat others differently? (5th Gr Unit 2)
- What was/is the human reaction to injustice? (modified 5th Gr Unit 2)
- Have you ever been to a wedding? Was there music? What kind? Was there traditional music?
- Why is it important to appreciate people from different ethnic backgrounds and cultures? (4th Gr Unit 2)
Method:
- Leave instruments where they are and move to the reading area
- Pass cards randomly to people in class
- Co-read with class using cards at appropriate times (email jharri10@illinois.edu for a pdf of the cards used in the session)
Choctaw Wedding Dance
(number of beats starting at the “whooo!”: 8-8-6-6-6-2)