Close Read Passage 1

• He was jealous that the soldiers could write letters

• He was looking for a way to give back to the U.S. Army

• He wanted to create "talking leaves" for the Cherokee

• He wanted the Cherokee to communicate with each other in another way

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

• Sequoyah and the other Cherokee could not write letters to their families

• During the War of 1812 Sequoyah joined the United States Army

• Sequoyah saw that soldiers could read and write about things that happened to them

• Sequoyah decided to create a written language for this people

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

• Books were translated into Cherokee

• The Cherokee were able to be better soldiers

• A cherokee newspaper was published

• The cheorkee could read books

• All Native Americans could speak the same language

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CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

• A written alphabet

• a spoken language

• symbols that stand for sounds

• symbols tha stand for letters

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CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.4

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

• decided to create a written language

• listened carefully to the sounds in the Cherokee language

• he had come up with a list of approximately eighty five sounds

• he created a different symbol for each sound

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4