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USING THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA��IN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS

OCTE Fall Conference

Linda Tamura

Oct. 6, 2021

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OREGON “IQ” QUIZ

1. What is “stoop labor? Whom did it primarily employ?

2. Which Oregon poet laureate was incarcerated during childhood?

3. The 14th Amendment (passed by Congress in 1866) guaranteed citizenship to all born or naturalized in the U.S. When did Oregon voters repeal Black Exclusion laws?

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WHAT IS ”STOOP LABOR” & WHOM DID IT PRIMARILY EMPLOY?

  • Hard labor in the fields

  • Considered “Mexican labor,” even during Depression

  • 1930s: 500,000 from Mexico deported

Half were American citizens

OE: Latinos in Oregon

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WHICH OREGON POET LAUREATE WAS INCARCERATED DURING CHILDHOOD?

  • Lawson Fusao Inada

  • Incarcerated during World War II with parents & grandparents:

Fresno Temporary Detention Center; Jerome, AK; Amache, CO

  • Oregon Poet Laureate, 2006-2010

OE: Lawson Fusao Inada

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THE 14TH AMENDMENT (1866) GUARANTEED CITIZENSHIP TO ALL BORN OR NATURALIZED IN THE U.S. �WHEN DID OREGON VOTERS REPEAL BLACK EXCLUSION LAWS?

  • Only free state with exclusion law (1857)

  • Repealed in 1926 by Oregon voters

  • Racist language removed from Oregon State

Constitution in 2002

OE: Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon

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GOAL: TO ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS IN INCLUSIVE�� LEARNING ABOUT OREGON –��THROUGH THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA

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1. WHAT IS THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA?�����1. HOW COULD THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA�� HELP STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT OREGON?��� (W/EMPHASIS ON EQUITY, JUSTICE, ANTI-RACISM)��

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1. WHAT IS THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA?

oregonencyclopedia.org

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2. HOW COULD THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA� �HELP STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT OREGON?

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OREGON STANDARDS FOR LITERACY�IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES

Reading: Determine central ideas of a primary/secondary source plus accurate, evidence- based summary

6-8.RH.2; 9-10.RH.2; 11-12.RH.2

Writing: Provide concluding statement that supports

information provided

6-8.WHST.wf; 9-10.WHST.2f; 11-12.WHST.2e

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SMALL GROUPS

• Select group theme

• Review/choose related entries

• Consider:

- Question your students could address?

- Student outcome?

- How you’ll engage your students?

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TOPIC: CITIZEN RIGHTS

OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES: Winona LaDuke

Gladys McCoy

Minoru Yasui

QUESTION FOR STUDENTS? How have Oregonians taken actions for their rights?

STUDENT OUTCOME? SW create a mural, image or audio that conveys an action they might

take for citizen rights & how they were inspired by an Oregonian.

HOW YOU’LL ENGAGE STUDENTS? Examine OE entries, images, sources for Oregon activists

Identify qualities, conditions that motivated them

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THEMES

• Blacks

• Native Americans

• Japanese Americans

• Latinx

• Women

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SMALL GROUPS

• Select group theme

• Review/choose related entries

• Consider:

- Question your students could address?

- Student outcome?

- How you’ll engage your students?

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TOPIC:

OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

QUESTION FOR STUDENTS?

STUDENT OUTCOME?

HOW YOU’LL ENGAGE STUDENTS?

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USING THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA��IN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS

OCTE Fall Conference

Linda Tamura

Oct. 6, 2021

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OREGON “IQ” QUIZ

1. What is “stoop labor? Whom did it primarily employ?

2. Which Oregon poet laureate was incarcerated during childhood?

3. What was Oregon’s 2nd largest city in 1944?

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WHAT WAS OREGON’S 2ND LARGEST CITY IN 1944?

  • Vanport, nation’s largest housing development on Columbia River floodplain – 42,000

  • Racially segregated

  • Flood on May 30, 1948 displaced residents

OE: Vanport

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PRIMARY SOURCE PACKETS FOR STUDENTS

Civil War in OR KKK & Compulsory Educ Act of 1922

Japanese American Wartime Incarceration

Women, Labor & WWII

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