5th Grade humanities
Learners will finish working on their 13 colonies journals, relating the political, religious, and social aspects of their character's life in one of the colonies. Learners will engage in mini-lessons on creating engaging writing through event order and sensory details, and utilize this understanding to revise and add to their writing.
Learners will then begin learning about just a few of the causes of the Revolutionary War. Some of the topics we will be discussing through a variety of mediums will be the Boston Massacre, Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, and Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts. Learners will then take the knowledge they have gained to write a newspaper article detailing one of the events. They will working on dialogue (through quotations), improving their sensory details, and completing the basic components of a newspaper article. In conjunction with our unit on the Colonial Era and American Revolution, learners will begin reading The Fighting Ground by Avi.
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Learners will continue working on their 13 colonies journals, relating the political, religious, and social aspects of their character's life in one of the colonies. Learners will engage in mini-lessons on creating engaging writing through event order and sensory details, and utilize this understanding to revise and add to their writing.
Learners will utilize videos and primary documents to explore how the introduction of slavery to America during the Colonial Era and the struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery contributed to the evolution of political, social, and economic institutions. Learners will read firsthand accounts from the points of view of slaveholders and slaves, and engage in a short writing piece from one perspective. In conjunction with our unit on the Colonial Era and American Revolution, learners will begin reading The Fighting Ground by Avi. Learners will embark upon new writing and social studies units this week! We will return to narrative writing in conjunction with our unit on the Colonial Era and American Revolution. This week, our social studies activities and readings will focus on religious, social, economic, and political factors that influenced the locations of colonial settlements.
Through informational readings, learners will explore the dominant factors that motivated colonists to settle in the New England, middle, and southern colonies, and examine the development of political and economic structures during the British colonial period. Learners will engage in mini lessons to refresh their knowledge of character traits and story structure. Then in partners, learners will focus their research on one colony, develop a character who lived in that colony, and write five journal entries detailing that individual's life, specifically focusing on their religious, economic, and political reasons for settling in that colony. Learners will construct their character's journal using Google Slides. |
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May 2018
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