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Sign of the Beaver Journals.pdfSign of the Beaver is a great book to analyze character but also to analyze how the world outside the book can change the book itself. As historians learned more about the native peoples of America, and how our society valued different things, this value of this book changes... Here are some Native American Resources for your students and some Resources on Treaties for students to fact-check the things in this book. It begs the question: How do books effect the world and how does the world effect the book?
Read Aloud Playlist on YoutubeRubric for Reading Response
Worksheet Packet (by on the mark press)
Interactive Journal Guide by Ms. Cookie
The Movie It's so bad. It's so bad it's funny: Matt is whiny and complains, the typhod fever happens in the beginning, they invent new characters, like Uncle Ethan... The colonial family is wearing long purple dresses and running around after dark... it's sooooo bad.....!
Theme Resources for the Novel
Videos
This is a lovely video that shows the tribe at the time of the novel. They got the longest operating government in the WORLD? Learn, baby, learn! I mean you heard of the Dutch oven? It's called that because the Penobscot showed the Dutch! The video touches on their creation myths, their clothing, their hunting habits... it's worth a good watch. Have your class listen closely to find out what year the Penobscot people were first allowed to vote.
What are Matt's people up to today? Here is a video of the Penobscot tribe's past and present. It's pretty cool... but you can definetely hear that East Coast accent in the narrator!
Here is some drone footage of the Penobscot Nation Indian Island, which is where Attean's people ended up. You can see traces of the forest where Matt lived and the houses where his descendants live today/
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