Oklahoma Social Studies 8.C.13.5.D
The Standard
- 8.C.13
- Analyze the political, social, and economic transformations during the Reconstruction Era.
- 8.C.13.5
- Evaluate the impact of federal policies related to the on-going migration and settlement of the West.
Describe the impact of Grant’s policy of government-run boarding schools and missions directed to assimilate Tribal members.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 8.C.13.5
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why the federal government supported boarding schools and missions during Grant’s presidency. They describe how separating children from their families and pressuring Tribal members to adopt English and Christianity affected language, culture, and family life.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name the government’s goal of assimilation and give specific effects on Tribal communities. They can also explain that Tribal members resisted these pressures and kept traditions alive.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think families freely chose to send children away, or that learning English was the schools’ only purpose. Some assume Tribal languages and traditions disappeared, rather than recognizing that communities worked to preserve them.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Why did the government support boarding schools and missions? Name two effects on Tribal families or communities, and one way Tribal members responded.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs six cards naming school rules and family experiences; have them sort the cards into government goals and effects on Tribal communities.
Ask students to write: Why might a government official and a Tribal parent describe the same boarding school differently?
Play a matching game with cards for policies, such as English-only instruction, and effects, such as loss of language practice at school.
Read the Cherokee Nation’s language program page; ask students how a current language class relates to boarding-school language bans.
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