About This Lesson
Students will examine James Walker’s Cowboys Roping a Bear as the impetus for historical inquiry in order to formulate arguments leading to a brief, class-wide debate. The relationship between human settlement and the natural world has been historically untenable and this painting can be used as a launching point for discussion.
The lesson is actually at least three days--the reading alone needs to have some strategies to go with it. However, it would be a good Speaking and Listening activity.