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The History of Our City

By georgiab
Grade Level
K-2 3-5
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LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What do you love about our city/town?
  • How do you think growing up in a certain area effects our identity?
  • How are we similar to our neighbors? How are we different?
  • Do individuals have worse or better experiences in their life depending on what area they grow up in?
  • How did the individuals within that community effect your identity?
  • What is your communities collective (group) identity?
  • Who were the people that lived in your town/city before you did?
  • Where did those people go?
  • What happened to them?
Texts
Teaching Strategies
Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.3, RI.K-2.6
July 16, 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
Write to the Source

In Conversation

In Conversation asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4
July 19, 2014
Write to the Source

Small Moment

Small Moment asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing about personal experiences.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4
July 19, 2014
Plan Built By
georgiab

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