<p align="center"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">American Indian Project</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left">Dear Parents,</p>

We have begun studying the First Americans, American Indians, in Language Arts.  As an activity to culminate this unit each student will have to prepare a project that will demonstrate one aspect of what they have learned. 

The due date for this project is <strong>November 30<sup>th</sup>.</strong>  However, any projects that are completed before that can be brought to school before the 30<sup>th</sup>.

As a reference, your child can use their copy of <span style="text-decoration: underline">The First Americans</span>, (the story have been reading from in class), the work we have completed in class, as well as other books from the library or web sites that relate to our topic. 

The students will pick one of the groups listed below and build a diorama which depicts a scene of their lives.  They will present their diorama to the class.  The students will have to explain to the class which group they chose, what they included in their diorama, and why.  This assignment should be <span style="text-decoration: underline">almost entirely</span> done by the students with as little assistance from an adult as possible.  On the back of this note is a copy of the rubric we will use to grade the projects.

 The groups that we have learned about are the:
<ul>
	<li>People of the Plains</li>
	<li>People of the Eastern Woodlands</li>
	<li>People of the Southwest</li>
	<li>People of the Northwest Coast</li>
	<li>People of the Far North</li>
</ul>
 

I look forward to seeing the students’ projects! Please contact me with any questions!