Q1 Feeling Our Connections: Lands, Peoples, & Governments

Image Source -How does trauma spill from one generation to the next?

Level
High School

Quarter/Year/Length
1st Quarter - 2023 - 6-8 Weeks

Author
Dylan Wince

School
Tempe High School

Traditional Units
American Revolution
Creating a New Country
Expanding the Nation

Skills
Change and Continuity
Cause and Effect
Multiple Perspectives

Q1 Feeling Our Connections:
Lands, Peoples, & Governments

Driving Question (DQ)

Using photography, how can you show your connections and feelings with our lands and peoples?

Supporting Questions (SQs)
Lands - How do you experience joy through the land through where you live, play and relax?
Peoples - How do you experience joy through your connections with your family, friends and community members?
History - How do you feel the connections to our history in your day to day life?

Project Description

(NEEDS UPDATING) This project is to have students engage with history, our present and seven generations in our future. Historical trauma, intergenerational trauma, is impacting our country. Students will have opportunities to engage with Essential Historical Lessons and then apply that learning to what they believe would be a way to begin healing and creating a better future. Students will be asked to create a plan and engage in creating an artistic visual for how they want to apply this learning. Our Units covered throughout this project are the American Revolution, Creating a New Country and Expanding the Territory of the United States. We will base our plan in the Indigenous Wisdom, Haudenosaunee, Seventh Generation Principle that asks for the thought process of whatever we are deciding to include how our decisions will impact those coming after us for seven generations.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Tempe High YPAR Collection

Community Partnerships

Relationships need to be fostered
NEEDS - Funding for disposable cameras and printing

Public Product

Photo journal of student's perspectives of connections and feelings with lands and peoples

Showcase Event

Important Collective Documents

To be added throughout the quarter

Project Feeling Our Connections
Essential Lessons

Essential Lessons are content lessons that are required by all students to complete.
Mr. Wince will ask to see your notes throughout the quarter and give feedback and engage in conversations about the content.

Checklist (4 Lessons)
Identity & "I AM" Poem
"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape"
Podcast: All My Relations
The Collective Works of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

Identity &
"I AM" Poem

Captured:
1000s of Words

Almost, Captured.

"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape"

Podcast:
All My Relations

Reconstructing the View

Project Checkpoints

Checkpoint #1 - Date TBD

Checkpoint #2 - Date TBD

Checkpoint #3 - Date TBD

Project Deadline - Date TBD