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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