Book Summary
This story follows young Squawally, a Native American from the Haida tribe, as he watches his uncle lead his people. Knowing that someday he will be chief, he is very proud of his people's customs and traditions. However, his thoughts keep returning to the prisoners his people captured during the war. Will their sickness infect his people, too? Illustrations, nonfiction features, a photograph, and a map support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions
• Make inferences
• Understand the use of a dash
• Recognize and use -y and -ly suffixes for adjectives and adverbs

Materials

• Book -- The Haidas (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Prediction, make inferences, dashes, suffixes worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be demonstrated by projecting book on interactive whiteboard or completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: anthropologists, ascent, canoes, communal, confiscated, designated, dismissive, extinction, humiliated, intoned, pigments, savoring, shaman, sneered, spawning, strait, stylized, supernatural, triumphantly