Grade K Unit 3 Reading/Language Arts – Social Studies KU3L04
Same and Different
Celebrate Thanksgiving
TEKS:
The student is expected to:
SS
K.12 (AB)
LA
K.10 (BD)
ELPS:
C.4.F Use visual and contextual support and support from peers and teachers to read grade-appropriate content area text, enhance and confirm understanding, and develop vocabulary, grasp of language structures, and background knowledge needed to comprehend increasingly challenging language.
Learning Target(s):
I can explain why we celebrate Thanksgiving and can identify customs and traditions associated with it.
I can retell important facts in a text.
Vocabulary:
SS Critical Vocabulary:· tradition
· custom
Content Vocabulary:
· celebrate
Materials:
Documents:
· Celebration Symbols images
· TCM Giving Thanks lesson ideas
Technology:
· Videos: Thanksgiving Day: America Celebrates: DiscoveryEd (15:00)
Supplies:
· Giving Thanks Primary Source Reader(TCM)
Teacher Tips:
· This lesson may be chunked throughout the week. Sections may be done in stations, independent work, group work, etc.
· You will not be showing the video Thanksgiving Day: America Celebrates video in its entirety all at once; you will show segments during various portions of the lesson. Refer to the notes in the procedure indicating when the video should be stopped.
· You might utilize some of the TCM Giving Thanks lesson ideas when teaching this lesson. The TCM Giving Thanks interactive eBook (located in PISD APPS) is a great learning station for students.
· You will need to log in to DiscoveryEd before linking to the video, Thaksgiving Day: America Celebrates for the link to work.
ENGAGE/CONNECT AND ENGAGE
Write the word ‘Thanks’ on the board. Ask students if the know what the word means. Ask questions such as:
· Have you ever said thanks or thank you to someone? (Have students share a time they said thank you.)
· When might someone say thank you to you?
· Why might the Pilgrims say thank you to the American Indians?
· Why might the American Indians say thank you to the Pilgrims?
· Have you heard of the word Thanksgiving? What is Thanksgiving?
· How do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
· Does everyone celebrate Thanksgiving the same way?
· What word do you see in Thanksgiving?
· How do you think Thanksgiving got its name?
ELL Beginner: I (can/cannot) ______say thank you.
I (can/cannot) ______celebrate Thanksgiving.
ELL Intermediate: I (can/cannot) ______say thank you because ______.
I (can/cannot) ______celebrate Thanksgiving by ______.
EXPLORE/CONNECT AND ENGAGE
Begin watching Thanksgiving Day: America Celebrates. Pause the video throughout to review the events students learned about during the past three lessons. Stop the video at 7:30 after the segment entitled "A Pilgrim Voyage" and before the segment entitled "The First Thanksgiving."
EXPLAIN/MODELED & GUIDED PRACTICE
Share with students that once American Indians helped the Pilgrims and they became successful at building their homes, growing crops, hunting, and curing illnesses, they wanted to celebrate. Remind students that the Pilgrims lived in America almost four hundred years ago when there were no stores or modern conveniences. Have students brainstorm ways the Pilgrims and American Indians might have celebrated.
Continue watching Thanksgiving Day: America Celebrates. Watch only the segment entitled "The First Thanksgiving" - 7:30-9:22. Stop the video prior to the segment entitled "The Thanksgiving Holiday." Summarize (with students' help) how American Indians and Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
ELABORATE/GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT PRACTICE Lead a discussion about why Thanksgiving is celebrated today in America. Questions you might use to facilitate student thinking could include:
· Why do we continue to give thanks for something that happened hundreds of years ago?
· How did the Pilgrims' success in America affect people for years to come?
· What might have happened if the American Indians did not help the Pilgrims?
· What would have happened if all of the Pilgrims had died?
· Why is it important to remember how the American Indians helped the Pilgrims?
· Why is it important that we give thanks for the good things in our own lives?
· How can we learn from the past?
ELL Beginner: I (can/cannot) ______give thanks.
ELL Intermediate: I (can/cannot) ______give thanks because ______.
Finish watching the Thanksgiving Day: America Celebrates video. Be sure to pause throughout the video to make connections to students' own Thanksgiving traditions and customs
EXPLAIN/MODELED & GUIDED PRACTICE
Display the Giving Thanks (TCM) book. Discuss the photograph on the front cover. Have the students predict what the story will be about based on the title and photograph. Conduct a choral reading of the story with the students. Talk about the pictures on each page as you finish reading the text. Think aloud as you identify important details in the images.
ELABORATE/GUIDE TO INDEPENDENT PRACTICE
Place the students in six groups. Give each group the Giving Thanks (TCM) book. Students look through the books as a small group and re-read the words and pictures. (If students cannot read the text, they can read the pictures to review the concepts in the book.) Prompt students to share details they see in the book.
EVALUATE/REFLECT & ASSESS
Students turn and talk with partners to share why and how we celebrate Thanksgiving today in America.
ELL Beginner: I (can/cannot) ______celebrate Thanksgiving.
I (like/do not like) ______Thanksgiving.
ELL Intermediate: I (can/cannot) ______celebrate Thanksgiving by ______.
I (like/do not like) ______Thanksgiving.