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Native American Poetry

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Identify text features, make inferences, and discover the cultural significance of Native American Poetry. Sixth graders read several Native American poems and use graphic organizers and literature response logs to record their feelings and inferences made about the poetry.

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author's purpose, authors, inferences, literature, text features

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author's purpose, inferences, native american poetry, text features, tone and mood, literature, structure, cite text, english language arts
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Grade
5th - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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