MEDICINE BAG
BY VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE
WHY THIS
AUTHOR?
• Born on the RoseBud
Reservation
• Story-telling grandmothers
• Sioux legends became her
inspiration
• Life’s effort: to portray
American Indians
realistically
• 2000: President Bill Clinton
awarded Sneve a National
Humanities Medal
CONCEPT VOCABULARY:
FATIGUE – physical & mental exhaustion
SHEEPISHLY – adv. – in an
WEARILY – in embarrassed way
a tired way
FRAIL – adj –
delicate, weak STRAGGLED – (vb) hung in messy strands
DOK QUESTIONS:
How does MARTIN change over the course of the story?
How do you know that MARTIN’s feelings change? Explain HOW
or WHY.
What PERSONAL events do you connect with in this story?
Explain HOW or WHY?
When MARTIN is OLDER, what will he tell his own son about his
grandfather?
FIRST-READ GUIDE:
COMPLETE PG 22
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (Options):
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send it as an ATTACHMENT to my school email.
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website. Download, print, write you answers, take
a picture, and email it back for credit.
3. DOWNLOAD/EMAIL:
download from the Teacher Website, save on the
desktop, make your changes, SAVE, ATTACH, send it to
my email
FIRST-READ GUIDE: WKSHT
Name some KEY WORDS or
KEY EVENTS
things Mark some words
that are related Or scenes that
to the UNIT You want to go back
THEME To the text and
remember
Personal Who, what,
Connections – when, where,
how do YOU why this story
connect to needs to be
something in told
this story
THIS IS TO HELP YOU REMEMBER THE IMPORTANT
KEY EVENTS or words in the story
CLOSE READ NOTATIONS:
1 2
4
3
6
5
7
NOW, YOU’RE READY TO PRACTICE FINDING THE SYMBOLISM IN
THIS STORY…
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
In the textbook or the Packet
On MY Teacher Website
