June 14, 2017 : Mini Page Hero: Tecumseh

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Design a visitor’s brochure for a museum about Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy. Paste newspaper words and pictures on your brochure. Add facts from today’s Mini Page.

2. In the newspaper, circle the food and supplies that you think would be good for Tecumseh’s people at Prophetstown.

3. Make a list of Tecumseh’s mental and physical strengths. Now find someone in the newspaper who also has each of those strengths. Explain your choices.

4. How were these important to Tecumseh: (a) Prophetstown, (b) the Shawnee Confederation, (c) Tenskwatawa and (d) Battle of the Thames?

5. Use the Internet and books to learn more about the American Indians who settled in the area where you live. There are probably descendants of these people who still live in or near your community. Write a paragraph describing these Native Americans: W hat did they call themselves? What was life like for them in the 19th century? What early artifacts or sites are available in area museums or historic/state sites?

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students use biographie to understand individuals who are honored by the nation. (Social Studies: History)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)