P.S. 105 The Blythebourne
/ Unit 2 2011-2012 / Grade 5 (P.S. 105 The Blythebourne)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 11:17AM /
Unit: Unit 2 Reading (Week 9, 10 Weeks)
Standards
NYS: CCLS:ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects K–5, NYS: 5th Grade , Reading: Informational Text
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
§ 5. Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
Big Ideas
How does geography affect the way people live? / Essential Questions
What are the components of Historical Fiction?
Leading Questions for Informational text
1. Why is it important to research information from several texts on the same topic?
2. How does information from multiple sources affect readers’ understanding when speaking and writing about a topic?
Leading Questions for Historical fiction:
1. What clues do you use to determine the time period and the place of this book?
2. What problems/struggles do the characters face from different texts during the same time frame?
3. How does the setting impact the characters decisions in different texts?
4.How are minorities portrayed or stereotyped?
5. What messages is the author sending the reader about family, friends, feelings, nature, life experiences, or a historical period?
Content
· Text features and structures of Informational text
· The importance of selecting several texts on the same topic
· Determining relevant information.
· Analyzing different perspectives on the same topic
· Text features and structures in H.F.
· Peoples roles have changed overtime (men, women, and children)
· The setting of fiction may be current or historical and still impacts us today
· The narrator’s or speakers point of view influences how the characters are portrayed
· The author teaches us about the past so we don’t make the same mistakes / Skills/Strategies
November: Evaluative
§ Synthesize information
§ Problem/Solution
§ Fact verses opinion
§ Author bias
§ Point of view
§ Tools/Craft used by the author to affect thinking
§ Solve unknown vocabulary
§ Visualize information
§ Questioning
December: Literal
§ Visualize Information
§ Summarization
Locate specific information and use specific text features such as a table of contents, headings and index to achievethis.
§ Gain information from visual sources
§ Find supportive details
§ Cause and Effect
§ Understand problem/solution
§ Compare and Contrast
§ Main Idea
§ Solve unknown vocabulary
§ Questioning
Assessment/ Performance Task
Performance: Authentic Task
Students will analyze a specific historical period to apply this knowledge to create an interesting historical fiction narrative account.
How can we write an interesting historical fiction narrative account?
Learning Activities / Resources/Touchtone Texts/Field Trips
Teaching With Documents:
http://www.edteck.com/dbq/index.htm
Image Detective:
http://cct2.edc.org/PMA/image_detective/index.html
Lewis and Clark ( scholastic)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/lewis_clark/index.htm
Westward Expansion
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/westward/
Fifth Grade Curriculum Related Internet Links
http://orchard.sbschools.net/library/links/fifth.htm
Field trip:
Federal Hall http://www.nps.gov/feha/index.htm
OR
Museum of the City of New York
http://www.mcny.org/education/school_programs.html
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