Today it was just Ranae and me. Torrential weather outside, so perfect weather for telling the story of the Wounded Knee Massacre inside.
The “Wounded Knee Sequence,” as I’m calling it, is really Ranae’s scene, where her character has regained power in the play, and is regaining momentum. The process with all of these lesson plans seems to be to get her comfortable enough telling the story that she can put it into her body. Once she gets to that point she’s really an engaging storyteller.
After we got that sequence up to speed, I had her do all of her lesson plans in sequence without interruptions. The only transition that was tenuous is the one between the stealing of Indian children and the Ghost Dance. That tells me that the Ghost Dance lesson plan is a direct reaction to the Pihnêefich/Messiah scene.
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