In the story, Across the Wide Dark Sea, a little boy tells his story about being on a boat and going to a new place with his family and other strangers. Then read aloud Molly's Pilgrim and discuss the story. Discuss both stories and how they relate to each other with a journey. Students will discuss and highlight the similarities and differences between the stories with characters, settings, and events that occurred. This will help students get a background of what it was like to travel to a new place and encounter new people. (Content)
Begin by reading aloud the story Across the Wide Dark Sea in the students reading textbooks. I use this to introduce the journey on the Mayflower. (DOK1) We will discuss all vocabulary aloud, using the words in sentences to show comprehension.(DOK1) Then students may play the eword vocabulary game on the computers to demonstrate their knowledge of the vocabulary words. (DOK3) Students will be able to go back in the text and identify the sentences with vocabulary words and explain their meaning.(DOK2) Then read aloud the story Molly's Pilgrim to the whole class. (DOK1) This story will help expand the relationship between Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Students will complete a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the differences between the Pilgrims and Indians. ( Ask students to identify the way of life and the relationship between the Pilgrims and Indians.) Also highlight the difference in the two types of Pilgrims in the story. (DOK3)(R1.3.8) Students will write their story webs to start the process of writing a narrative. They should write as if they are the child on the boat in the story and what it would have been like for them. Students should have a beginning , middle and conclusion along with details of the experience on the boat. Add characters, details, and feelings to allow the reader to feel as though they are in the story. (DOK4)(W3.3a, W3.3b, W3.5) Students will read this story as a reader's theatre. Place students into groups so each one has a part to read. They will practice together and then perform for the entire class once they practice their lines. Then they may switch roles in the story so they have a feeling of each characters part in the story. (Creative Idea)
Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 3c
Resources:
http://americanhistory.pppst.com/puritans.html
www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/gr3
Reader's Theatre is certainly a magical activity for the kids. It becomes extra special when they are the ones writing the script, picking the characters, and performing the show. I would love to here how this works for you. This extended lesson can be done with any other lesson on any topic area! Just turn it into some kind of narrative.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to have the students writing and then reading.
ReplyDeleteJust my usual caveat to be clear that the Native Americans living in what is now Massachusetts don't represent all Native Americans. There are differences between the Wampanog and even other tribes in the region. Plimoth Plantation has a wonderful interactive on Thanksgiving which, in part, looks at the differences between the Pilgrims and the Wampanogs: http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/interact/thanksgiving-interactive-you-are-historian
There's also a teacher's guide for it.
Rhonda
Excellent literacy integration on many levels!
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