Exploring a Changing Community

Essential Question

What changes have you noticed in your community?
Who lives in your community?
Who originally lived in your community before you?
How are people that originally lived in your community still apart of it?

Texts

Multimedia

StoryCorps: My Father Worked in a Chocolate Factory

“My father went to work in a chocolate factory. When he'd come home, his hair was all full of chocolate; his pillows were all brown.”

Carmela Pollio, Laurence Hewitt and Yoshiharu Hewitt

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Economics

Geography

Topic

Class Immigration

July 8, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.2, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

What's the Impact?

What’s the Impact? asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.2, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

Plan Built By

Ivon777

Exploring a Changing Community

StoryCorps: My Father Worked in a Chocolate Factory

Fishbowl

What's the Impact?

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