James Fenimore Cooper Lesson Plans

1. The Phenomenon of White Indians
...) were women who had been kidnapped as children or young adults by Native American tribes and who had been raised within the Native American culture. 2. Organize students into groups. Assign each group one of the following topics for research: Billy Wells Robert Dickson ?White Indian? as seen in James Fenimore Cooper ?White Indian? women 3. Each group prepares a presentation of their findings and presents to the whole class as though they knew the individual they researched. Now, compare and contrast the views that each source provides into the life and culture of the ?White Indians.? Extending the Lesson: It...

2. Literature of the Gilded Age
...mmunicate knowledge. -+ NCTE Standard 12 Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes. -+ ISTE Standard 5 Technology research tools -+ + + Introduction: The literature of the pre-Civil War period is usually characterized as ?romantic? and includes the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, the transcendental essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell. These traditions continued after the Civil War; however, not surprisingly, there was a significant change wit...

3. Dime Novels, Penny Horribles, and Zane Grey
...racterize all of ?the West? + Images of the West in the art of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, etc. + Scholarship of the West as seen in Frederick Jackson Turner?s 1893 ?frontier thesis? + Forerunners of Zane Grey and the modern western (authors and characters: James Fenimore Cooper, EZC Judson , Kit Caron, Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill?s Wild West Show, Wild Bill Hickock, Wyatt Earp) + Symbols utilized in westerns: the noble Indians (Dances With Wolves), deadly gunmen, heroic cowboys, Mormons, rustlers, the ambush, etc. Extending the Lesson: Rather than working in...

4. A Monumental Idea
...e", then "Save As" from your browser's pull down menu. The file name extension must be .html. This lesson provided by: Author: Amoreena Brewton System: BALDWIN COUNTY School: GULF SHORES HIGH SCHOOL Title: A Monumental Idea Overview/ This is a small-group project Annotation: utilizing web research, cooperation, creativity and hands-on production in order to fully understand the impact of social reformers of the 19th century. Students will be responsible for building a monument in tribute to a social reformer. Monuments will be displayed in the library. A one-page typed summary will be turned in with the monument wh...