Topic
Learning Goal
Activity
Time
Materials/Resources
Tell
LG #1
Throughout the
SPEAKING:
semester.
Show and Tell activity every other Friday on the topics of the units assigned for the semester.
Oral Skills
Assessment
Dispositions
Distribution Show &
Core
According to the Unit. Journal Notebook
Creativity Diversity
Show & Tell Rubric.
Leadership
Unit 3.1 Puerto Rico Unit 3.2 Immigration Unit 3.3 Fables
Unit 3.2
LG #2
October (1
Immigration
READING:
week)
Students will fill out a
Using the story: The
worksheet where they have
Keeping Quilt by
to state the main characters,
Patricia Polacco.
Creativity Diversity
Quilt Worksheet
setting and main idea of the
Main
story.
Idea/Setting/
Make a quilt with the Characters
Unit 3.3
LG #3
Fables
WRITING:
November
Quilt worksheet
students, representing
Crayons
Puerto Rican traditions.
Scissors
Students will write a
Journal Notebook
paragraph about their favorite animal. Draw the
Creativity Diversity
Writing Rubric
Paragraph
Thanksgiving
animal and color it.
Social
For thanksgiving week,
Transformati
they will write a paragraph
on
stating what they are thankful for.
Week Unit 3.3
LG #4
Fables
WRITING:
November
After reading a suggested story from the Curricular Map, the students will create their own version of
Short Story
Aesop’s Fables
Creativity
“The Lion & the
Leadership
Mouse”
the story (6-8 sentences) in
“The Tortoise & the
their journal notebook and
Hare”
illustrate a scene of their
“The Country
story. I’m going to use a
Mouse & the City
fable that has a theme about
Mouse”
Create Your Own Fable Worksheet
Social Transformati on
social transformation. “The Boy who cried Wolf”
Unit 3.3
LG #5
Fables
READING:
Making predictions
November
Before reading a story, the
Fable: “The Country
students will look at the
Mouse & the City
illustrations and I’ll ask
Mouse”
them, what do they think is going to happen in the story? I’ll write their
Diversity
Comic Strip
predictions on the board and we will check their predictions throughout the reading. After reading, the students will put the storyline into sequence of events on a worksheet.
ABC Vocabulary Words
LG #6 READING:
December
The students will create a Vocabulary Words
st
1 Week.
Alphabet, using all the vocabulary words studied throughout the semester, in their journal notebooks. This activity/project will be for points, with a value of 45 points.
Journal Notebook
Creativity
Class Notebook
Diversity
Special Project Rubric