Author: Priscilla Black
Seminar: Writing and the Specificity of Place
Program: DINÉ
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: 6th
Year of Publication: 2020
Seminar: Writing and the Specificity of Place
Program: DINÉ
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: 6th
Year of Publication: 2020
Abstract
In this unit, stories and essays will be analyzed from an Indigenous perspective. Authors
like Leslie Marmon Silko, Manuel Munoz, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Joy Harjo can open the
eyes and ears to expressing from mind, heart, and soul. For each other, students will look into
the author’s background. The students will read the author’s biography, study the environment
an author writes about, and will begin discover how a writer expresses their unique identity and
culture through the details of the “living” things around them. Through these stories, students
will study history from individual stories.