Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box tosolve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure thatyou read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so youcan help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat withanother class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn moreabout this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.
Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to avariety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters andschools around the city. She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especiallyinterested in alternative literacies and theater for social change. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works inthe Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nellwas named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people gettheir names.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading: Informational Text
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
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If you hike to this spot in Utah’s Snow Canyon State Park after a good rain,you’ll know why it’s called a bathtub (said to have been favored by outlawButch Cassidy, no less). The park’s red sandstone cliffs stand at a crossroadswhere the Mohave and Great Basin Deserts meet the Colorado Plateau, andthanks to the incredible scenery and easy access, it’s been the location of a fewHollywood Westerns.
In case anyone asks, the name of the park doesn’t refer to the climate. It’snamed for two Mormon pioneers who helped settle Utah: Erastus and LorenzoSnow.
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
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Web Search
Who is a cowboy? What is a ranch? What kind of tasks would a cowboyperform today?
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Web Search
What does a cowboy usually wear? How do these items help them dotheir jobs?
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Web Search
What traditions from elsewhere in the world gave rise to the Americancowboy?
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Web Search
When was the idea of the American cowboy popular? What had justhappened in US history? Where did American cowboys come from?
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Web Search
What are some of the stereotypes associated with cowboys? How didthese stereotypes develop?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
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Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
1
Web Search
Who is a cowboy? What is a ranch? What kind of tasks would a cowboyperform today?
2
Web Search
What does a cowboy usually wear? How do these items help them dotheir jobs?
3
Web Search
What traditions from elsewhere in the world gave rise to the Americancowboy?
4
Web Search
When was the idea of the American cowboy popular? What had justhappened in US history? Where did American cowboys come from?
5
Web Search
What are some of the stereotypes associated with cowboys? How didthese stereotypes develop?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
1
Web Search
Who is a cowboy? What is a ranch? What kind of tasks would a cowboyperform today?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
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Web Search
What does a cowboy usually wear? How do these items help them dotheir jobs?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
3
Web Search
What traditions from elsewhere in the world gave rise to the Americancowboy?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
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Web Search
When was the idea of the American cowboy popular? What had justhappened in US history? Where did American cowboys come from?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
5
Web Search
What are some of the stereotypes associated with cowboys? How didthese stereotypes develop?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?
Hollywood Westerns, like those filmed here, have made theimage of the American cowboy very popular. What was therole of cowboys in American history and do cowboys still existtoday?