Mary whitebird autobiography
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Great Value! This lesson unit contains a complete guided reading worksheet with 55 questions (with answer key) for the short story Ta-Na-E-Ka by Mary Whitebird. Questions consist of True and False, multiple choice, fill in the blank and short answer.
It will take about 50-70 minutes for the students to complete the 55 question worksheet (depending on the student).
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Common Core and Florida Standards Compliant:
LA 8.2.1.2 - Locate and analyze elements of characterization, setting...,
LA 8.1.7.1 - Use background knowledge of subject and related context areas...
LAFS.8.RI.1.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its...
LAFS. 8.RI.1.3...Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals...
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Ta-Na-E-Ka
1972 fictional short story
Ta-Na-E-Ka is a short story, first published in a 1972 Scholastic Voices textbook and commonly used in the United States elementary education. Ta-Na-E-Ka describes a fictional ritual underta ken by two children of the Kaw people, ten-year-old Mary and her ten-year-old cousin, Roger. In the story, at age eleven the Kaw go through ta-na-e-ka, a test of outdoor endurance and survival. Complaining to her teacher and mother that she does not want to go through the ceremony, Mary is taught that it is part of her heritage and that she should be proud. After a month of training, Mary and Roger are sent into the wilderness along the banks of the Missouri River to survive for five days. After spending a day struggling, the children eventually come across a restaurant, where they pay the owner to allow them to eat and sleep until the test is over. Returning to her grandfather at the end of ta-na-e-ka, Mary tells of what they did, and while
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Mary Whitebird
Mary Whitebird is the pseudonym of a writer who has long had an interest in the life of the States in the late 20th century. His famous short story "Ta-Na-E-Ka" was published in the early 1970s. In reality, Mary Whitebird is a very private writer and film-maker who was born in Arizona and died on October 2010 "Ever since inom could remember, I've been interested in the American Indian. " I went to high school with a number of Seneca and Onondaga Indians, who lived in Rochester, New York. While I was in the army I was stationed in west Texas. I was the editor of the post newspaper, and had more free time than most soldiers- and more tillgång on and off the military base. One of my friends was a Sac and Fox Indian from Oklahoma. With him, we drove to all the neighboring reservations (mostly Apache) and I saw firsthand some of the injustices (this was in the early 50s) accorded the Indians. I wrote some letters about it to the local newspaper. Since the army did not loo