10/2-3 Monday-Tuesday

Guiding Question:

What was the character of Revolutionary War battles?

Objectives:

Collaborative: Students will analyze Valley Forge by reading and annotating primary and secondary sources and answering guiding questions with at least 80% accuracy.

Independent: Students will work to increase their Lexile levels by reading an achieve article about the American Revolution, completing all summaries, and scoring at least 75% on the activity.

Standards:

CA HSS.8.1 - Understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation.

RH.6-8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text

RH.6-8.2 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source

WHST.6-8.9 - Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research

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

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:

Objective Tracker

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:

Introduction to American Revolution Battles

Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes:

Task 1: Achieve3000, "American Revolution: A Puzzle From the Past."  

- You only need to summarize paragraphs that are more than three sentences! You may write your summaries as bullet points for my class.

If you do not pass the original article, here is your makeup article.

Task 2: Watch this video 

Early Finishers: Read silently, complete another Achieve article, or watch CNN10. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 40 minutes:

Task 1: Read Background Essay Together

Task 2: Work in your table groups to annotate Background Essay & answer guiding questions.

Task 3: Document A

Here are the sentence starters for the document questions.

Here is the background essay vocabulary.

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes:

Objective Reflection

Homework:

None