Grade 2 Read-Aloud

190 Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide 9 | The Buffalo Hunters

Advance Preparation

Make a copy of Instructional Master 9A-1 for each student. Refer

to it as Response Card 6 for this domain. It shows images related

to buffalo and Native Americans. Students may refer to the images

on the Response Card as you introduce and discuss the content of

the lesson.

For Comprehension Question #6, you may wish to draw and

complete the following Venn diagram on the board or chart paper

as students tell how hunting bison was different for the Lakota

Sioux than it was for some Europeans.

Hunting Bison

Lakota Sioux Europeans

killed bison

ate bison

meat

used all of

the bison

killed for

survival

respected

bison

wasted the

rest of the

bison (after

using meat)

hunted for sport

did not respect

bison (left

bodies)

Bring in a trade book about buffalo and Native Americans or the

Transcontinental Railroad to read aloud to the class.

Notes to Teacher

After completing the bulk of today’s lesson, you may wish to

discuss how the hunting of bison by some European settlers

threatened the lives of the Lakota Sioux. Refer to the read-aloud

text under Image 9A-6 to begin the discussion.