The Historical Importance of your Home

Essential Question

What is Home? Is it just a place on a map?
What has happened throughout history to people like me?
How can I be proud of who I am and celebrate others?
What privileges do I have that others don't?
Why is history important? Does it affect how people live today?
Did all people have the same rights? Do all people have the same rights now?
How do I benefit from my identities?
How can I bring what I know from my home, to where I am currently?
How can we create a fair and just community?
How can different groups work together for everyone’s benefit?

Texts

Literature

We Live By What We See at Night

In this poem, the speaker addresses his father, recalling for him the lush Puerto Rican landscape that he grew up in. Now, this green can be seen only in his father's dreams.

Martin Espada

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

Geography

Topic

Immigration

July 3, 2014

Literature

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.

Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino (illustrator)

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

April 7, 2016

Literature

How the World Came to Be

These creation myths, from two different cultures, consider how the world came to be.

Anita Ganeri

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Religion

July 9, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

My Pile, Your Pile

My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

L.3-5.4, L.3-5.6

July 19, 2014

Word Work

Personal Picture Dictionary

A personal picture dictionary is an individual vocabulary and spelling resource students make themselves.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RI.3-5.4, RL.3-5.4, RF.3-5.4, L.3-5.4, L.3-5.5, L.3-5.6

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Beautiful Language

Beautiful Language asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing to gain the understanding of others.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

Do Something

Identity Portraits

Students interview one another, then draw or paint portraits containing symbols that represent the subject’s identity, beliefs, values or areas of interest.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

szarek

The Historical Importance of your Home

We Live By What We See at Night

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

How the World Came to Be

My Pile, Your Pile

Personal Picture Dictionary

Beautiful Language

Identity Portraits

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