Lesson #1:
Subjects:
History & ELA
Grade Level:
Grade 3
Topic:
Students are learning about the Puritans at the Massachusetts Bay Colony and their relationship with the Wampanoag tribe. Students learned about the Puritans and their establishment of the colony and the ways of life of the Wampanoag.
Objectives:
History:
After the students research how the Wampanoag’s helped the Puritans settle on websites provided by the teacher, SWBAT fill out a graphic organizer.
English:
After the teacher reads aloud the letter to the Wampanoag from John Winthrop Jr., SWBAT write a letter of response with historically accurate evidence of mistreatment the Wampanoag received.
MA Curriculum Frameworks:
History:
Explain why Puritan men and women migrated in great numbers to Massachusetts in the 17th Century, how they moved west from the Atlantic coast, and the consequences of their migration for the native people of the region (e.g. loss of territory, great loss of life due to susceptibility to European diseases, religious conversion, conflicts over different ways of life such as the Pequot War and King Philip’s war)
Literacy
3.W.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting an opinion with reasons.
Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
Provide reasons that support the opinion.
Provide a concluding statement or section
3.W.4
Produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Essential Question:
History:
How did the Puritans take advantage of their friendship with the Wampanoag?
ELA:
How would you react if you were the leader of the Wampanoag?
Assessment Plan:
Teacher will be collecting the letter of response to John Winthrop Jr. to assess if the students have a firm understanding of how the Puritans migration had an impact on the Wampanoag tribe.
Technology:
- While teacher modeling how to partner read, there are the rules of partner reading on the smartboard. (which can be left up while the partner reading is happening)
- Teacher can have an Edmodo page for her class. Each student would have accounts and access to their teacher’s page
- Students will use chrome books to research how the Wampanoag’s helped the Puritans. They will go on Edmodo and click on the links of the websites the teacher has posted. (This way the teacher knows what websites, the students are on)
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