Red White or Blue Teacher's Guide: The 1875-1876 Journey of a Lakota Chief's Son and an Army Major's Daughter

By Sue Hillard

The Red White or Blue Teacher's Guide is a curriculum manual for the study of the novel, Red White or Blue. The guide allows students to contemplate contrasting cultures, customs, faiths, and values without glossing over the difficult issues of Manifest Destiny and the future of the prairie roaming Lakota in 1875 and 1876. The Red White or Blue Teacher's Guide is the companion guide to the Red White or Blue Student Workbook, creating a ready-made curriculum to be used in the study of the novel, Red White or Blue. As an alternative, the teaching guide contains all of the student workbook lessons and the material may be copied for classroom use. The 76 page teacher's guide is divided into 15 lessons with the novel reading assignments paced at approximately 20-30 pages per lesson. Vocabulary, literary devices and comprehension questions are included in each lesson. "Dig Deeper" questions are provided in some lessons to help facilitate cultural issues still facing us today. Students can reference extensive endnotes, a glossary and a timeline at the end of the novel when they answer curriculum questions.Red White or Blue Teacher's Guide, combined with the novel and optional student workbook are the perfect tools to help address difficult cultural issues of our past, explore the human condition and discuss how to step forward into the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943646015
• ISBN13: 9781943646012
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Three Heart Books
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12