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Exploring Past and Present Identities Of Your Town

By renirose
Grade Level
3-5
private
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • 1. How is your life easier or more difficult based on who you are or where you were born?
  • 2. How are you different or the same as someone who lives somewhere else?
  • 3. What are some things that you like about the town you live in?
  • 4. How has the place you've grown up influenced your group identity?
  • 5. How do you benefit from your identity?
  • 6. What groups or people lived here originally, before you did?
  • 7. How could you describe and compare your group identities to other people?
  • 8. What are group identities and how do they describe you? Others?
  • 9. What do you think happened to the people that lived in your town before you?
  • 10. Who do you think lived in your town before you did?
Texts
Teaching Strategies
Word Work

Meet New Vocabulary

Meet New Vocabulary uses a graphic organizer to help students acquire new vocabulary while reading. This strategy is most effective when teaching challenging, domain-specific words (Tier Three).
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, RF.3-5.4, L.3-5.4, L.3-5.6
July 19, 2014
Word Work

Word Wall

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
L.3-5.4, L.3-5.5, L.3-5.6
July 19, 2014
Student Tasks
Do Something

Community Mural / Poster Campaign

Students create a large-scale artistic depiction in a community space. As an alternative to the community mural, students can create a set of informational posters that reflect a diversity topic or social justice theme.
Grade Level
3-5
July 13, 2014
Do Something

Oral History Project

Students conduct interviews and record personal experiences focused on a specific theme from the central text. They then synthesize and present the information as a an article, pamphlet, poster or other medium of their choice.
Grade Level
3-5
July 13, 2014
Do Something

Photo Essay Exhibit

Students put together and collectively display sets of photographs that convey stories, feelings or messages related to themes in the central text.
Grade Level
3-5
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
renirose

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