Questions to ask about the song, A Legend There

1.  Have you ever heard this song before?
2.  What does it talk about?
3.  Where is it talking about?
4.  What is the title?
5.   What is a legend?
6.   What is an anthem?
7.   Who wrote the song?
8.    Why was the song written?
9.   What are glaciers?
10.  What does the song mean when it says, "From the time the glaciers melted"?
11.  What is "Dakota's heart"?
12.  What does "the prairie now set free" mean?
13.  How was the prairie locked up or caught?
14.  What began to grow?
15.  When did it begin to grow?
16.  Can a prairie grow?
17.  Where is the prairie?
18.  Who are the ancient people?
19.  Where did they come from?
20.  What did they do for a living?
21.  What were their lives like?
22.  Where is "a valley where a winding rivers flows"?
23.  What is the name of the valley?
24.  What is the name of the river?
25.  What does, "There was a legend there," mean?
26.  Who were the barefoot children?
27.  Why were they barefooted?
28.  What is, "onyx hair"?
29.  What does, "they learned the stories, of the ones who went before," mean?
30.  Does anyone tell you stories?
31.  Who tells you stories?
32.  What are the stories about?  (Have students write down stories they have heard their families tell about things in the past.)
33.  What was "the land like this land"?
34.  What are, "tribal drum beat"?
35.  What is the , "long repeated song"?
36.  Do you "stand on the very ground where they once stood"?
37.  What do you know of "how they lived?"
38.  What do you know of "how they lived"?
39.  Why is it important to know of "how they lived"?
40.  Was there only, "a family" there?
41.  Can you make up another verse to go with this song?
42.  What games or toys did the children have?
43.  Can you play or make the games or toys those children did?
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