Grade(s): 5
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2015
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Students will use their knowledge of text structures to explore past pandemics in SC.
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Students will engage in a debate over whether the United States should enter the Space Race using rhetoric and historical information.
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This lesson falls into the second nine weeks of school, after the study of Westward Expansion. This design project will lead to a new unit that focuses on the Industrial Revolution. Collaborating in...
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Students will complete research on one of the Reconstruction amendments. After completing research, students will create a project demonstrating their knowledge of that particular amendment as if they...
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Students will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
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Students will use letters from the Civil War to compare and contrast primary and secondary resources.
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The students will be able to label and understand the meaning of text features in a nonfiction book.
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Students will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 shocked the nation. Citizens and servicemen were caught off guard and left vulnerable to the Japanese attacks. Sixty years later in 2001, the United States endured...
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Award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia was one of the featured authors at the 2017 StoryfestSC, an annual event sponsored by the South Carolina State Library. Knowitall talked to Rita about her...