5th Grade humanities
This week, learners will present their Kahoot games on early European North American settlements, and continue their social studies unit on the Colonial Era. Learners will explore the guiding questions: Why did Jamestown settlers have such a high mortality rate, and how did settlers reverse this trend? What did people do for work in the colonies? What was daily life like for those who lived in the colonies (both settlers and native peoples)? Learners will examine numerous articles related to these topics, and respond to questions that ask learners to critically reflect on the interactions of settlers and native peoples and the effects of these exchanges. Learners will engage in mini lessons that are focus on informational text reading comprehension strategies, including explaining interactions between two or more individuals/groups, and identifying main idea and supporting details.
Learners will wrap up the week with an escape room activity. Learners will decode clues that give facts about the Jamestown colony, and eventually decipher the final clue that will allow them to "escape" (or "survive" living in the colony).
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This week learners will be focusing on the following guiding question. Who moved to and settled in North America and why did they choose to live where they did? Learners will work in small groups to read pre-selected articles and research the early settlements at St. Augustine, Roanoke Island, Quebec, and Santa Fe. They will then collaborate with their groups to create an interactive quiz game or activity focusing on their settlement. On Thursday and Friday, groups will teach the rest of the class about their settlement as they present their games.
This week, we will wrap up reading The Birchbark House as a whole class. Learners will reflect on the events of the book through quick writes and exit ticket questions. Learners will deepen their background knowledge of the socio-historical context by investigating historical and current statistics of diseases and world hunger and reviewing images depicting how native peoples gathered and processed food. Finally, learners will consider how their pre-writing inquiry with a mystery photography, story, letter, and informational writing all connect and relate to the story.
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