Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux is available from Amazon as a paperback and ebook. Learn more about the worlds of Tomas and Oscar with this free online reading guide:
- Day 1: Who was Oscar Micheaux?
- Day 2: The Battle of Bonesteel
- Day 3: The Youth’s Companion
- Day 4: Why Tomas couldn’t erase a chalkboard in 1904
- Day 5: A Buffalo by Any Other Name
- Day 6: To Make a Prairie Poem
- Day 7: Soddies – Homes Built from the Ground Up
- Day 8: Carlisle Indian Industrial School
- Day 9: The Homestead Act of 1862
- Day 10: Oscar Micheaux’s Life of “Soaring Ambition”
- Day 11: Watch “The Great Train Robbery”
- Day 12: Oddball
- Day 13: Pullman Porters
- Day 14: Oscar’s Words: Read Oscar Micheaux’s First Novel
- Day 15: Lakota Culture, Part I: Language and Family
- Day 16: Wojapi
- Day 17: The First Ford Model A
- Day 18: The Origins of Historical Fiction
- Day 19: The Language of Dance Music
- Day 20: Childhood at the Turn of the Century
- Day 21: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Day 22: Ragged, Jagged Jack and the Problem of Stereotypes
- Day 23: Milkweed and Spiderweb Cures
- Day 24: One-Room Country Schools
- Day 25: Lakota Culture, Part 2: Winter Counts
- Day 26: Can you match these first lines with their book titles?
- Day 27: Books as Mentors for Writing Students
- Day 28: Discussion Questions