Focusing Question: What do individual people and communities need/do to feel/achieve peace?
Goal:
To integrate writing into the social studies and art
curricula
To practice reading strategies
Objectives:
Students will practice reading strategies as they listen to/read
literature.
Students will gather evidence to support their understanding of
peace.
Students will utilize their artwork as a writing prompt.
Students will compose a shared writing poem.
Students will compose individual poems inspired by their own artwork
and literature.
TUSD Core Curriculum:
Language Arts:
Writing
Students effectively use written language for a variety of
purposes and with a variety of audiences.
Six Traits of Writing &endash; focus on voice, word choice, and
ideas
÷ idea development, focus, details (Ideas)
÷ author's voice, purpose, consideration of audience, tone
and style (Voice)
÷ precise language and phrasing (Word Choice)
Social Studies
Students analyze the human experience through time, recognize the
relationship of events and people, and interpret significant
patterns, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in Arizona,
American and world history.
€ Recognize the role of individual and groups in society.
€ Recognize the historical role of indigenous peoples, indentured
servants, slaves, and immigrants in U. S. History.
€ Develop an understanding of the reasons for studying history and
the relationship between the past and present.
€ Develop an awareness of "belief" systems and their effects on
reactions.
November 15, 2001
1. In the classroom and library, Mrs. Begay and Ms. M. will
each read An Angel for Solomon Singer (Cynthia Rylant) to half
of the class. Teachers will model using reading strategies to access
meaning in the text: make connections, visualization, prediction,
summarize, big idea.
2. Each group will keep a chart to record: summary, questions, theme
(creating peace).
November 16 and 19, 2001
3. Compare our charts.
4. Students will read Smoky Night (Eve Bunting) in small
groups and keep a group chart.
5. Share our peace themes.
November 20, 2001
6. Create peace doves with Mrs. Ross, art teacher.
November 27, 28, and 29, 2001
7. Brainstorm: What do individual people and communities
need/do to feel/achieve peace?
8. Brainstorm: "p" words related to peace, ideas and themes from
An Angel for Solomon Singer and Smoky Night.
9. Compose group poem samples. Develop a rubric for evaluating our
poems: word choice, voice, ideas (peace), organization
(revision).
10. Keyboard poems (Library Information Center), print, and
display.
Connect with Global Art Project school/class and exchange art and poems.
Library and literacy coach facilitation: http://www.iearn.org/projects/senseofcaring.html
Information Literacy Standards: #3, #5, and #9
Note: ILL For Mrs. Ross: Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace
(Shelly Moore Thomas)
For Mrs. Begay: The Big Book for Peace (Durrel/Sachs) and
Black Elk: A Man with a Vision (Greene)
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