4th grade humanities
This week, learners will continue writing in their Gold Rush journals as they learn about discrimination during the 1850's. We will focus on discrimination towards various groups of non-Anglos, the effects of mining on native people’s land, and laws that discriminated against native people. 4th graders will continue reading By The Great Horn Spoon and we'll integrate comprehension questions into our classroom discussions.
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This week, learners will wrap up SBA testing. We will continue the Gold Rush project and begin focusing on people's lives in the Gold Rush after they arrived in California. Learners will explore different types of mining techniques that were used in the Gold Rush, and how these techniques affected the land and contributed to erosion. Learners will also review using dialogue to add detail in a narrative writing piece, and will either craft a new journal entry or go back and add a conversation between their character and another character in their Gold Rush journal.
We will continue reading By The Great Horn Spoon and utilizing the text for comprehension questions and building background knowledge of the historical context of the book, which learners can apply to their Gold Rush journals. This week, learners will begin SBA testing for ELA and math. Each subject will have multiple testing days over the next two weeks, but learners will not be testing every day. When they are not testing, learners will continue working on their Gold Rush project. Learners will wrap up their journal entries for their journey to San Francisco with a 5th journal entry for their arrival in California. Learners will also explore primary source documents that include examples of real journal entries from 49ners.
We will continue reading By The Great Horn Spoon as a class, and utilize the text for class discussions and to build background knowledge for this time period in California history. This week, fourth graders will continue journaling their experience heading to California's gold rush. They will focus on event order and sensory details. They will learn about how the discovery of gold and news of gold spread around the world. Lastly, they will watch a video clip about Manifest Destiny and learn how propaganda was used to lure people to California.
In addition, learners will continue reading By the Great Horn Spoon and focus on comprehension skills and character development throughout our reading. |
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