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Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook
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128 pages1 hour
Summary
The “mysterious” world of Caucasian Americans comes alive through history lessons, puzzles, and word games for all ages in this humorous parody. Presented as a scholastic style educational workbook, it illuminates the history of Caucasian Americans in the United States from a Native American perspective. Chapters with such names as “Caucasian American Languages,” “Caucasian American Food Production,” and “Caucasian American Religions, Ceremonies, and Superstitions,” subversively and playfully critique the role Caucasian Americans have played in shaping the United States. Including delightful illustrations, word scrambles, and other fun exercises, this hilarious lampoon adeptly teaches progressive values through humor.
Publisher: PM PressReleased: Jul 1, 2013ISBN: 9781604868654Format: book
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Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook - Beverly Hope Slapin
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Introduction for Teachers
Our purpose for publishing the Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook is to provide young readers with accurate accounts of the lives of the Caucasian American people, who, long ago, roamed our land. Caucasian Americans are as much a part of American life as they were one hundred years ago. Even in times past, Caucasian Americans were not all the same. Not all of them lived in gated communities or drove gas-guzzling SUVs. They were not all techie geeks or power-hungry bankers. Some were hostile, but many were friendly.
It is important for young people to study our Caucasian American neighbors in order to learn how they have enriched the heritage and history of all Americans. We hope that the youngsters who read these pages will realize the role that Caucasian Americans have played in shaping the United States, in making America the remarkable country it is today.
Indeed, the Caucasian American contribution to our culture is a significant one. The great white property owners inspired the political union of the United States. Much of our American agribusiness stems from the Caucasian Americans, and in the fields of sports, medicine, art, dancing, and literature, we owe a great deal to their tenacious, capitalistic spirit.
The Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook provides unique learning opportunities to strengthen and develop lives, especially the lives of children who are descendants of these original Caucasian Americans. The word games, puzzles and research questions at the end of each chapter create a stimulating learning environment that encompasses both fun and creativity.
So, gather your students together, turn the pages, and explore the fascinating Caucasian American world of mystery and beauty!
Chapter 1
The Very First Caucasian Americans
Caucasian Americans have lived on this continent since an explorer named Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Columbus, who was from Genoa, sailed from Spain, looking for a shorter route to the Spice Islands so that he could become very rich. The King and Queen of Spain, who financed his voyage, did not know that Columbus was directionally impaired. That means that he didn’t know how to get from one place to another! He got way lost! The Europeans didn’t know that there was another continent on the other side of their world, so they called the continent they landed on the New World,
even though it was as old as the Old World
!
Fig. 1. This is a drawing of a map of the world that Christopher Columbus used when he was looking for the Spice Islands. Do you think he got lost because he didn’t know how to read a map, because the map was wrong, or both?
Columbus was not a very nice person. In this New World,
Columbus and his crew met a lot of Indigenous people, and massacred them. Soon after, other European people came to the place that they called America.
No one knows what this name meant, but the people who came here to live changed their names from Europeans to Caucasian Americans.
In America, the Indigenous peoples who had survived taught the Caucasian Americans how to build canoes, smoke tobacco, hunt animals, eat wild berries, and plant corn, beans, and squash.
But the Caucasian Americans did not say thank you.
Instead, they continued to massacre the Indigenous peoples and steal their land. Soon the Indigenous peoples and the Caucasian Americans became enemies.
Fig. 2. This is a drawing of Christopher Columbus. Why do you think he’s frowning? Do you think he looks like a nice person?
The Very First Caucasian Americans: Review
a Each word and name on this list can be found in the box below. Some words and names go down and some across. Draw a line around each of these words and names.
directionally
impaired
Columbus
Indigenous
Europeans
America
massacred
enemies
savages
b Fill in the blanks below.
Columbus was looking for a shorter route to the__________ ______so that he could become____. But he was_______, so he got lost. When he got to____, he met some______ __________and he____ them. Columbus was not a very_________ _________.
C Choose the correct meanings for each word or phrase. There may be more than one correct meaning for each word or phrase.
Columbus:
(a) European
(b) nice person
(c) poor navigator
(d) got lost a lot
New World:
(a) Spain
(b) Spice Islands
(c) America
(d) Europe
Europeans:
(a) uncivilized
(b) people from Europe
(c) explorers
(d) murderers
(e) thieves
(f) savages
d Research questions:
Why did the Caucasian Americans massacre the Indigenous peoples and steal their land?
What is the relationship between colonialism and genocide?
What is the meaning of this? The people united will never be defeated.
Chapter 2
Caucasian American Homes
Because Caucasian American tribes were different from each other, they used different kinds of housing for their needs. Mobile homes and recreational vehicles were popular with some tribes from the suburbs because they could be easily moved. There were also permanent dwellings, known as ranch-style houses. These had wooden frameworks that spread out and took up vast amounts of land. Outside were garages that often held two or more sacred vehicles called cars. These cars, which were navigated only by Caucasian American men, were symbols of status and virility, and were often used in teenage mating
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