3rd Grade humanities
This week, we will move into a new social studies unit on the U.S. Constitution and government. Learners will begin by exploring the basic ideas presented in the Constitution about the structure of government and three branches of the national government. Learners will then engage in a gallery walk to reflect on how aspects of the Preamble such as justice and freedom are present in their lives, and craft their own Preamble original story using the mentor text "We The Kids". We will wrap up the week by watching an episode of Liberty's Kids on the development and ratification of the Constitution.
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This week, learners will complete their realistic/historical fiction story final drafts, publishing them just in time for Expo Night. Learners will also finish up their Fingerprint creative writing pieces that they began in Project Lab last week. On Wednesday, learners will begin their benchmark assessments and they will finish them on Thursday.
This week, learners will wrap up their realistic/historical fiction story drafts and begin typing their final drafts. Learners will engage in mini lessons on writing an ending using action, dialogue, or feeling, paragraphing, and using transitions to organize and make their story flow smoothly. Learners will edit and revise their writing as they type.
This week, learners will continue the draft writing process their realistic/historical fiction narratives. Learners will focus on developing the rising action, climax/turning, point, and falling action events of their stories, including real details from their Bay Area resident interview and fictional aspects that tie their story together. They will work to integrate a theme into their story to convey a message or feeling to the reader. Learners will engage in mini lessons on elaboration and craft strategies to add detail and strengthen their writing.
On Monday, learners will interview long time Bay Area residents. They will use the skills of asking questions and recording notes that they practiced last week. They will also identify the central themes that are present throughout the classes interviews, exploring how their community has changed over time. Learners will then begin preparing to write a historical fiction piece based on the life of their interviewee and events they have experienced. Pre-writing mini lessons will include theme, character traits, and story mapping.
This week, learners will explore how historians and researchers interview people to learn about their life experiences in the context of historical and social events and issues. Learners watch interview examples and consider the types of questions asked and what makes each a successful interview. Learners will then use sentences frames of who, what, why, when, where, how to develop questions that would help them best learn about another individual's life. Learners will practice being the interviewer and interviewee and taking notes. This will help prepare learners for interviewing longtime Alameda residents next week, which will be the first step of their Trimester 2 interdisciplinary project on Alameda history.
This week, learners will continue writing their Neptune Beach historical fiction stories. We will use Paper Son, a historical fiction text set in the 1920s on Angel Island Immigration Station, as a mentor text to guide learners' understanding of historical fiction text structure. Learners will engage in mini lessons on crafting dialogue, using descriptive language to show and not just tell about events, integrating transitional words to organize their writing, and developing an engaging conclusion.
This week, third grade learners will return to narrative writing for the second time this school year. On Monday, learners will complete an on-demand writing piece, using their heart maps to come up with a topic. The on-demand writing will provide data for facilitators to use as they create mini-lessons to support these specific writers. Third grade learners will learn about Neptune Beach, the "Coney Island of the West", a boardwalk amusement destination that existed right here in Alameda from 1917 to 1939. Writers will then apply what they are learning about narrative writing to crafting their own historical fiction piece set in Neptune Beach.Welcome back from break! It was great to see so many of you at Expo Night. This week, learners will edit and revise their opinion writing pieces on indigenous peoples land rights and type their final drafts in Google Docs. Writing mini lessons will focus on paragraph organization, using specific examples/details to support their reasons, and other techniques to add elaboration in their writing.
We will have our publishing party at the end of the week. Learners will celebrate their hard work. and share their publishing writing pieces with their peers. This week learner will continue to draft an opinion piece focusing on the following question: Should people be allowed to build on land that is sacred to indigenous peoples?
Writers will work on crafting a piece that hooks the reader's attention, clearly conveys their opinion, and includes supporting reasons and evidence from the articles we have read. Mini lessons this week will focus on organization, using transitional phrases, and writing a strong conclusion/clinching statement. We will also revisit the opinion writing checklist, which learners will utilize to guide the development and revision of their writing. |
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