1. Integrated Literacy Assignment
Nicole Shady
Text book/ Picture book: IIII Lesson Plan: I Map: II Game: I Website: II Magazine: II Audio/video clip: II Song: I Culture Kit: I

2. Grade Level Content Expectations
3-H3.0.4 Draw upon traditional stories and/or teachings of American Indians (e.g., Anishinaabeg- Ojibway (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), Potawatomi; Menominee; Huron Indians) who lived in Michigan in order to make generalizations about their beliefs (The Three Fires).

3. Picture Books The Legend of Sleeping Bear
The Legend of Mackinac Island

4. Text Book, Trade-book

5. Lesson Plan
Students use the resources provided to research and report on the Three Fires way of life:

6. Map The Three-Fires shared a common language- bringing them closer.

7. Map

8. Game

9. Website

10. Website Virtual tour of an Eastern Woodland Scene

11. Magazines

12. Audio Clip Potawatomi language audio clips

13. Song The new Cherokee morning song with translation

14. Culture Kit

15. Citations
(2001). The Three Fires. The Mitten. Retrieved from (2002). The Huron Indians. The Mitten. Retrieved from (2009). Potawatomi Language Lessons. Retrieved from (2015). Native American Games. Retrieved from Mrs. Black Michigan’s Three Fires. Retrieved from Culture Kit. Roads Across Michigan. Native Peoples: Indians of the Great Lakes. Grand Valley State University, Curriculum Materials Library. McConnel, David Meet Michigan. Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale Educational Publishers, Inc. Norrgard, Lorraine. Ojibwe: Waasa-Inaabidaa. Retrieved from

16. Citations cont.
Plewe, Brandon. A linguistic map of Native North America Hartford Web Publishing. Prindle, Tara NativeTech: Scenes from the Eastern Woodlands. Retrieved from [Seirios15]. 2011, August 27. The new Cherokke morning song with translation [Video file]. Retrieved from The Tribes in 1760 [map]. In D. McConnel, Meet Michigan. Hillsdale, MI: HillsdaleEducational Publishers. (p. 61). Wright, John C The Crooked Tree. Retrieved from Wargin, Kathy-jo The Legend of Sleeping Bear. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press. Wargin, Kathy-jo The Legend of Mackinac Island. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.