8/16 Wednesday

Guiding Question: 

How did European explorers come to North and South America? 

Objectives: 

Collaborative: Students will review 7th grade history concepts by reading about the Age of Exploration, annotating in their groups, and answering questions with at least 80% accuracy.

Standards: 

CCRA.R.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it

ELD B.6 - Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed.

Do Now (Voice Level 0): 

Complete your objective tracker for today. 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0): 

Annotating Informational texts intro, go over annotation guide 

Collaborative (Voice Level 0): 

- Age of Exploration Close Read. Work with your groups to annotate and answer the guiding questions. 

Here are sentence starters for the guiding questions. 

Early Finishers: Play some history trivia! 

Homework: 

None