This is a clip from Allan Holzman's Beyond The Mesas and can serve as a springboard for the questions and resources below.
Life in School during the Boarding School Movement
What do you think?
How did travel to Sherman change over the years?
Put yourself in the position of a child who does not know the language and is expected to communicate only in that language. Once you learned the new language, would you remember your original language? How would you retain your language if you were not allowed to speak it?
Describe how the people in this selection “made the best” of their situation.
