4th grade humanities
Learners will finish working on their Gold Rush journals, relating the events of their character's journey to California. Learners will engage in mini-lessons on creating an engaging story through event order and sensory details, and utilize this understand to revise and add to their writing.
Learners will continue to learn about the gold rush through primary accounts and historical documents. Some of the topics we will focus on this week will be gold mining techniques, the perspective/point of view of different groups existing in California during that time, and the discrimination that occurred during the gold rush. In conjunction with our unit on the Gold Rush, learners will begin reading By The Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
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Learners will continue working on their Gold Rush journals, relating the events of their character's journey to California. Learners will engage in mini-lessons on creating an engaging story through event order and sensory details, and utilize this understand to revise and add to their writing.
Learners will utilize primary documents to deepen their understanding of the Gold Rush and the experiences of people coming to, and living in California. Learners will watch video clips, read the account of James Marshall's discovery of gold, and examine stories and propaganda that led to people catching "Gold Fever" and coming to California from all over the world. They will create a comic strip detailing the events of James Marshall's discovery, and create their own newspaper article/advertisement for the Gold Rush. In conjunction with our unit on the Gold Rush, learners will begin reading By The Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. 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 Gold Rush. This week, our social studies activities and readings will focus on social, economic, and political events leading up to the Gold Rush, specifically the Western Expansion of the U.S. and the Mexican-American War.
Learners will work in small groups to create posters that identify key details and explain the importance of specific events and people who were a part of California's path to statehood. Additionally, learners will reflect on the role of Manifest Destiny in Western Expansion and the Mexican-American War. Learners will then explore the three main routes that people traveled from the East Coast to California: over land, through the Isthmus of Panama, or around Cape Horn. 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 route, develop a character who traveled that route, and write five journal entries detailing that individual's journey to California. Learners will construct their character's journal using Google Slides. |
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May 2018
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