EngageNY.org Bringing the Common Core to Life Grade 4, Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1 SIMULATION
Mar 19, 2016
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Bringing the Common Core to Life
Grade 4, Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 1SIMULATION
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Learning Targets• I can notice new ideas and
wonder about the lives of people long ago.
• I can answer questions using specific details from text.
• I can show what I know by contributing to discussions.
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Learning Targets
• Tools in understanding your own learning
• Help you know what you are expected to learn and do during a lesson
• Part of every lesson, used at the beginning and at the end so you can share how you did moving toward the learning target
• “I can…” statements that you are striving to be able to do in any given lesson or series of lessons
New Unit of Study!
Iroquois, a Native American Group• Lifestyles• Values• Beliefs
Settled in New York more than 11,000 years ago!
Influenced how we live today
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video
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For example…
Observing something
For example…
Questioning the meaning, history, or purpose of what you see
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"The Iroquois Confederacy"First Half…
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Share… cold call…
Chart…
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"The Iroquois Confederacy"Second Half…
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Have you met the learning target,
‘I can record new ideas and wonder about the lives of people
long ago?
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Cold Call
Add to Chart
What do the symbols on Tim’s shirt mean?
Reading about the Iroquois
• May help explain what is on Tim’s shirt
• You’ll read the article…read some sections several times just like strong readers!
• You’ll keep track of your ideas on a
graphic organizer
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Creating Your Graphic Organizer
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Write your guesses about what’s on Tim’s
shirt
Write any other questions you have
from the video
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Does this look like what’s on Tim’s shirt?
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Reading about the Iroquois
• Important for you to answer the question from reading instead of from hearing a teacher’s explanation…we’ll practice learning from reading all year!
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Page 1 ONLY for today…
• Dekanawideh day-gahn-na-WEE-da
A different language
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Think about the flag and follow along as I read paragraph 1…
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CONSTITUTIONA set of rules people
agree to live by
America has a constitution.
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Follow along as I read the rest of page one
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• Reread page 1 on your own, focus on what it is mainly about.
• Make notes in the margins.
• It’s okay if parts don’t make sense…we’ll reread for two lessons.
Page 1• What is the article
mostly about?
• I noticed some important vocabulary. Did you, too? Let’s talk about it…
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Important Vocabulary• Bitter rivals (paragraph 1)
What does it mean? How did you figure it out or may I show you how I
figured it out?
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What does it mean?• So they were rivals…they were competing with
each other for something.
I wonder what issues they would compete over.
What do you think?
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‘Miracle Maker’• Strong readers
notice specific words
• I notice ‘miracle’ in big letters; It might be important
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‘Miracle Maker’• What is a miracle?
• Who is the Miracle Maker?
• What is the miracle that he made?
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Reread page one on your own.
Think about the symbol on Tim’s shirt.
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Discussion• Add 3 specific details from “The (Really) Great Law of
Peace” that might connect to the symbol from Tim’s shirt or answer your questions
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Write your guesses about what’s on Tim’s
shirt
Write any other questions you have
from the video
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What do you still wonder?
Have you met today’s learning targets?
• I can contribute to class discussions.
• I can answer questions using specific details from the text.
• What is your evidence?
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Homework• Independent Reading (from list of
Recommended Texts or other topic-related texts from classroom, school or local library
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