![]() ![]() ![]() I still faced many obstacles: long chapters, not enough time to read and complete novel study, challenging vocabulary (Ojibwa words) that neither students nor I can pronounce fluently, students grow bored at times, and NO ASSESSMENTS available.Īs a result, I decided to take on the challenge to make this novel study both educational and exciting! Birchbark House Struggles Become Strengths Long Chapter and Challenging Ojibwa Words Resources to guide instruction will help with everything, right? WRONG! Year 4: Louisiana Department of Education teamed up with Learnzillion, and Guidebook 2.0 was released. ![]() ![]() Year 2: Boredom! Not again! Close the book! Moving on! NEXT! Year 1: It dragged on and on and on and on and on. Teaching Birchbark House: Struggles are was REAL! When I first started teaching this book, I didn’t know how I was going to finish it. Through vivid details, figurative language, native storytelling, Ojibwa vocabulary, and impeccable sentence structure, this novel opens its pages to a variety of educational opportunities.īefore The Birchbark House was implemented into our state curriculum, my school district piloted the new Guidebook curriculum that included this novel. In the Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich the narrator tells a riveting historical fiction story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas. Planning a novel unit is very exciting, but it can also be overwhelming! That is exactly how I felt when I first started teaching The Birchbark House. ![]()
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