Redefining the Alaskan Narrative: Personhood

Reflect on what makes us people through close-looking at objects from the Anchorage Museum collection and through introspective activities. Grades K-5

Redefining the Alaskan Narrative is a series of lesson plans connecting to the Anchorage Museum’s previous Lines of Sight: Comic Art and Storytelling in Alaska exhibition that ran from November 2023 to October 2024. This series seeks to explore both storytelling themes from Alaska’s Indigenous cultures and the processes involved in comic books.

Resource Information

Audience/Grade

1 2 3 4 5

Standards

Arts Culturally Responsive

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Use of this lesson plan supports the following standards

Alaska English Language Arts Standards

Comprehension and Collaboration K-5:
1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small
and larger groups.
2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
3.Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
4. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events, and with prompting and support, provide additional related details.
6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.

Topics

Visual Literacy Alaska Native Cultures

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Untitled, wolf transformation mask, Sam Fox, 1979, Anchorage Museum collection; 1980.031.001

Poonk Timertik Inua (Punk Walrus Spirit), Lawrence Beck, 1987, Anchorage Museum collection; 1992.006.001