Teaching English 9B-BIE — Story, Land and the Native Novel: Delivery Guide & Professional Development

⚠ REVIEW DRAFT — not yet cleared for use. This guide accompanies a course that has not yet been reviewed by Native educators or by the tribal education department of any nation. Like the course, it is published so it can be read and reviewed. Do not schedule the course for students until that review is complete.

This is the teacher companion to English 9B-BIE — Story, Land and the Native Novel, the second semester of the Grade 9 English sequence for Bureau of Indian Education schools. The course’s texts are Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, E. Pauline Johnson, Alexander Posey and Zitkala-Ša’s essays, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie and the documents around it, and Charles Eastman’s From the Deep Woods to Civilization.

The second semester carries the course’s three highest-stakes local knowledge slots: a word in this language, the agreement that governs this land, and education in this community, then and now. That last slot touches boarding-school history in living memory. Module 1 is about preparing for those three slots, and for Eastman’s account of Wounded Knee. Modules 2-5 take one student unit each, with a briefing, facilitation and scoring.

If you have not worked through Module 1 of the English 9A-BIE guide, do that first. It covers the review process, the standards basis and the protocol for asking, which this guide assumes.