Social+Studies

Week 1: Week 2:
 * **Objectives:**
 * Recognize text features of non-fiction text; apply non-fiction reading strategies to various selections.
 * Identify strategies to read a textbook; apply strategies.
 * Refine and apply note-taking strategies; relate elements of non-fiction text such as headings to headings in notes
 * Determine importance of information in various sections of a piece of non-fiction text
 * Apply sequencing strategies to non-fiction text; (i.e. timelines, charts, graphs)
 * Identify cause and effect relationships within various sequences (in timelines, charts/nonfiction text) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Materials:**
 * Understanding Text Features worksheet
 * Pack Your Bags for Peru worksheet
 * Note-taking outline worksheet for //Ancient China//
 * Stop the Presses worksheet
 * Harcourt selections:
 * Ancient China p 256-269
 * Pyramids p 274-289
 * Using Graphic Sources p 292-293
 * Awesome Achievements worksheet
 * Talk Like an Egyptian worksheet
 * Selection Comprehension tests - Ancient China & Pyramids
 * Social Studies: The World by Scott Foresman (p 101)
 * Postcard Template

Week 1: Week 2: __**Day 5:**__
 * Tasks/Activities:**
 * //Pack Your Bags for Peru// worksheet (Historical Fiction writing activity)
 * Compare map on p 258 in //Harcourt// to map on p 101 in //Social Studies - The World//
 * Read and discuss a timeline p 278 in //Harcour//t
 * Focus skill //Harcourt// p 292
 * //Stop the Presses// worksheet - use Internet to look up dates
 * Test prep worksheet p 94 (Using graphic sources) - students edition p 292-293 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Assessment:**
 * Selection Comprehension tests: //Ancient China// (Week 1) & //Pyramids// (Week 2)
 * //Pack your bags for Peru// postcard writing activity (Week 1)
 * informal; note taking worksheets ||  ||   ||
 * __ Week 1 __**
 * __Day 1:__**
 * Have students identify any text features they may already be aware of - how does non-fiction text differ from fiction text?
 * Ask students how/if they read a textbook differently than they read a book for pleasure or a piece of fiction.
 * Read and discuss //Understanding Text Features// worksheet;discuss how follow through a piece of non-fiction text to take accurate notes/determine importance of information
 * Preview story - identify and discuss different aspects of text previously discussed - draw attention to headings, subheadings, captions, charts, pictures etc.
 * Compare map on p 258 in //Harcourt// to map on p 101 //Social Studies: The World//
 * Begin reading story; completing notes sheets
 * __Day 2-3:__**
 * Read story - have students complete taking notes worksheet
 * __Day 4:__**
 * Complete //Pack Your Bags for Peru// activity
 * relate keys to other elements of non-fictions texts (besides maps) - for example charts, graphs, timelines etc.
 * complete //Talk Like an Egyptian// worksheet
 * Selection comprehension test

**__Week 2__**: __**Day 1**__:
 * Discuss what students already know about timelines (how they are set up, different layouts, things to include etc.)
 * Introduce using graphic sources (p 94 worksheet & p 292-293 in textbook; read and discuss p 292-293
 * picture walk - discuss how the selection //Pyramids// utilizes the text structures discussed last week, as well as graphic sources
 * read pyramid progression timeline p 278-279; note how the authors used graphic sources and pulled important details out of lots of information to create a concise, ordered timeline
 * ask students how looking at a timeline helps them to make sense of/visualize the important information - relate a timeline as another method of taking notes
 * begin reading story, time permitting
 * __Day 2-3:__**
 * Finish reading remainder of story;
 * complete //Stop the Presses// worksheet, which summarizes how non-fiction text is laid out, and asks students to answer questions related to the various elements of a piece of non-fiction text.
 * discuss various student generated answers to the questions
 * __Day 4:__**
 * Continue discussion of timelines/graphic representations
 * Complete //Awesome Achievements// worksheet
 * Discuss answers to worksheet as a class/correct together
 * __Day 5:__**
 * Selection comprehension test


 * __Links for worksheets:__**