Lessons, Activities, and Projects Objectives
In this section I present a sequence of lesson-objectives and activities that students will learn to meet the required California Core standards. These lessons will teach the students about comparative studies, citizenship and race, broadly imagined.
Read Aloud/Daily Bites/Creative Expression: Several read aloud books focusing on a variety of cultural narratives about freedom, fairness and citizenship will be read daily by the teacher or by a parent volunteer. This will be the anticipatory set that begins each lesson. The students will get daily bites of a new culture's citizenship narrative.
Cultural Reading of Chapter Books: Students will learn more about their citizenship paths by reading a chapter that address the cultures immigration experiences. The students will learn about the struggles and successes encountered by reading their books. 3
Class Chapter Book, The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963: The whole class will read this required fifth grade chapter book called, The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963. It will give the students more information about why African Americans journey to true citizenship was littered with challenges. 4
Critical Thinking and Writing -After the students read their cultural chapter books on their topic and listen to different read aloud books from different narratives on citizenship, they will have some background knowledge to begin their essay. They will write a compare/contrast expository composition on the topic. 5
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