In “Living Nations, Living Words,” poetry is at the forefront, and the featured poems were selected with overarching themes (place and displacement) and specific touchpoints (persistence, visibility, resistance, and acknowledgment) in mind. Still, as Joy Harjo states in the introduction to the story map: "In this map, you can begin anywhere."
The activity ideas in this section of the guide have been developed with that notion in mind, and represent possible approaches that you might take when using the “Living Nations, Living Words” project with students. On the left-side navigation panel, you can access activity ideas that use the story map or the online poetry collection, as a starting place.