Funded Jul 21, 2017So far we have gotten through our first book, Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell. The students were sucked in by the idea that children were ripped from their families and shipped off to boarding schools until they were adults just because they were Native Americans. They begged me to dig deeper to find more information on this topic. So we accessed or Discovery Education account and found video documentaries with people sharing their first hand accounts of their terrible experiences.
I wanted my students to be interested in history and that is why I created this project. However, they did more than that, they began to care beyond the events and feel compassion and empathy for the people involved. My biggest challenge in this project so far is actually coming up with enough activities and resources to feed their thirst of inquiry into the topic.
Thank you so much for making all this possible through your generosity and kindness. Actions like yours have not gone unnoticed and I believe people like you are the catalysts to the positive change our country needs.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Olson