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Totem Poles

Mrs. Ethridge's class made totem poles after reading Bearstone by Will Hobbs. It is a novel about a teenaged Native American boy, Cloyd, a member of the Ute Tribe of the Navajo Nation, and his friendship with an elderly man named Walter.

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Standard: ELA7RC1
The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) per year from a variety of subject disciplines. The student reads both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse, including technical texts related to various subject areas.