Candidate as a Teacher Task 1

Reading Enrichment/Enjoyment unit for Third Grade

Teachers Name: Teresa Huggins Subject/Course: Language Arts/Social Studies Media Specialists (Intern) Name: Lisa Hendrix Grade Level: Third Grade Brief Summary of the Unit: This unit will focus on enhancing students knowledge of Life in Colonial Times before reading the novel And Then What Happened Paul Revere Approximate Time Frame for the lesson: 3 class Approximate Time Frame per lesson: 45 minutes periods

Stage 1 Desired Results

AASL Standards 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning. 1.1.9 Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. 1.4.2 Use interaction with and feedback from teachers and peers to guide own inquiry process. 2.4.3 Recognize new knowledge and understanding. 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners. 3.1.3 Use writing and speaking skills to communicate new understandings eectively. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understandings in ways that others can view, use, and assess. 3.2.1 Demonstrate leadership and condence by presenting ideas to others in both formal and informal situations. 4.1.1 Read, view, and listen for pleasure and personal growth. CCSS and Essential Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1b Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1c Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.1d Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. GPS: SS3H2-The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded peoples rights and freedoms in a democracy a) Paul Revere (independence).

Understandings: Students will understand what life was like in the early colonial times. Students will understand what education was like. Students will understand the types of jobs that were available.

Essential Questions: What was life like in the early colonial times? What was education like in early colonial times? What were the different types of jobs in the early colonial times?

Students will be able to Compare and contrast education today and in colonial times Identify different jobs in the colonial times

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Tasks: Students will go on a Scavenger Hunt to find different descriptions of trades in the early colonial times. Colonial Williamsburg: http://www.history.org/history/index.cfm Other Evidence: Students will also construct a coloring book of Colonial Life in America. http://www.usa-printables.com/Events/Early-AmericanLife/

Stage 3 Learning Plan

Learning Activities: W-The students will listen to a story called If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern in social studies and ELL. They will view a Thinglink http://www.thinglink.com/scene/306604551811629058?buttonSource=userPage about the early American schools, and do a scavenger hunt on the different trades in Early America. This lesson will help them get ready to have a better understanding when they begin reading the chapter book, And Then What Happened Paul Revere. H-To hook the students I will tell them that later they will be working with partners to go on a scavenger hunt. E- To have a better understanding of colonial life students will: Identify differences in schools back then and schools today by looking at a Thinglink about early schools Use the computer to help locate information about Early Colonial America Assess learning through conducting the scavenger hunt. R- Assessments Assessment though observation and the final evaluation of the Scavenger Hunt E-Working with a partner the students will complete a scavenger hunt after the lesson using the web site http://www.history.org/history/index.cfm The student will compare findings at the conclusion with fellow classmates. T-Students will be asked during the lesson to name similarities and differences in Colonial America and present America. During the lesson the students needs will be met by kinesthetic and tactile movement. The students will also be paired with a partner. O-Hook Read Essential Question and discuss standards. Reflect that there were major Differences in education and jobs in the colonial times and today.

Scavenger Hunt: Working with a partner and using the following website locate the titles to the following descriptions to the various trades found in Colonial America. http://www.history.org/history/index.cfm 1. Using hardware crafted for homes and tools for fellow tradesmen this trade was called a ____________________. 2. This trade involved wheels and iron____________________ 3. Creating medicines to help people feel better and to save lives was this important trade_________________________ 4. The creator of gowns, hats, and cloaks___________________ 5. The maker of hair pieces for ladies and gentlemen was called a ___________________ 6. This job involved making a material that we use in building houses out of today and he was called a ___________________________ 7. Find three other trades found in Colonial America and write a description about each. a).trade-1_______________________

b). trade-2_______________________

c). trade-3________________________