Literature and Information

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.01.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Rationale
  4. Content Objectives
  5. Gender Bias
  6. Multicultural Role Models
  7. Heroes and Heroines: Analyzing Character Traits
  8. Poetry
  9. Picture Book Biographies
  10. Writing Self Portraits
  11. Teaching Strategies
  12. Classroom Activities
  13. Annotated Bibliography
  14. Internet Resources
  15. Teacher Resources
  16. Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
  17. Notes

Biographies and Autobiographies: Portraits of Peace Builders

Julie So

Published September 2015

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Appendix A: Implementing District Standards

This unit will target ELA Reading Literature, Reading Information, Writing, and Speaking and Listening standards. We will cover the First Grade Common Core standards in English Language Arts Reading Literature with RL2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. RL4: Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. RL5: Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. RL10: With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. We will also cover the standards for Reading Information with RI2: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI4: Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. RI6: Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. All of our writing activities will cover the Writing standards of W2: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic and provide some sense of closure. W3: Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. And finally, through discussions and sharing in whole group, small groups, partners, older grade buddies, and presentations we will cover the Speaking and Listening standards of SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. This unit also crosses over to achieve California State Standards for History and Social Science CSS/HSS 1.1.2: Understand the elements of fair play and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which we live, including the meaning of the “Golden Rule.” Learning about specific peace builders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, students will also reach the standard CSS/HSS 1.3.2: Understand the significance of our national holidays and the heroism and achieve­ments of the people associated with them. And finally, standards are spiraled to reinforce Kindergarten standards for CSS/HSS K.1.1, K.1.2, and K.1.3 under Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways. This includes characteristics and qualities inherent in the peace builders we will study and emulate.

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