Curriculum / ELA / 3rd Grade / Unit 2: Rediscovering Thanksgiving: Fact vs. Fiction / Lesson 3
ELA
Unit 2
3rd Grade
Lesson 3 of 24
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Describe Lizzy's experiences on the Mayflower and the challenges she faced.
Article: “Letters from a Pilgrim Child (Letter 1)”
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Describe Lizzy's experience on the Mayflower. What challenges did she face? Why?
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What does the phrase, "in the beat of a heart" show about the way Lizzy was feeling?
What does the word grateful most likely mean as used in paragraph 3? How do you know?
How does Lizzy spend her days on the ship? Why?
What happened that made Lizzy think that they would all "drown and become food for the fishes"?
In what ways do Lizzy and the other pilgrims rely on religion for comfort? Explain.
How is the information in this letter similar/different to the information from the text Pilgrims? Why?
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Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
stench
n.
a very bad smell
fearsome
adj.
causing fear
grateful
showing thanks
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RI.3.3 — Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.3.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.3.4.b — Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).
L.3.6 — Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
RF.3.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
RF.3.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RI.3.1 — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
RI.3.4 — Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
RI.3.5 — Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
RI.3.10 — By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2—3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
SL.3.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
W.3.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Lesson 2
Lesson 4
Explain what motivated the settlement and colonization of the New World and what challenges the explorers faced.
RI.3.3
Describe the conditions on the Mayflower and why so many people decided to take the journey.
RI.3.3 RI.3.6
Writing
Describe what life was like on the Mayflower by writing a variety of compound sentences.
L.3.1 L.3.1.h L.3.1.i RI.3.3
Explain why the Pilgrims were not satisfied with Cape Cod and why they were satisfied with Plymouth.
Explain what readers learn from Lizzy about what life was like in the "New World."
Writing – 2 days
Write a few sentences describing the challenges and rewards of being in the New World.
L.3.1.f L.3.1.h L.3.1.i RI.3.3 W.3.2
Describe who the Wampanoag were and what they valued.
Describe key aspects of Wampanoag culture.
Analyze how the Wampanoag viewed the Pilgrims and explain why.
Explain how the arrival of European explorers impacted the Wampanoag.
RI.3.3 RI.3.9
Explain why Squanto chose to help the Pilgrims.
RI.3.3 RI.3.6 RI.3.9
Use subordinating conjunctions to write more interesting and complex sentences.
L.3.1.h L.3.1.i
Analyze what information is missing about the Wampanoag.
Describe the Wampanoag's relationship with the colonists.
Discussion
Discuss unit essential question using information from multiple texts and sources.
RI.3.3 SL.3.1 SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.d
Draft a paragraph describing what it was like to be a Wampanoag in 1621.
RI.3.3 W.3.2 W.3.2.a
Analyze an account of the first Thanksgiving and explain what happened.
Discuss unit essential questions using information from multiple texts and sources.
RI.3.6 RI.3.9 SL.3.1 SL.3.1.a SL.3.1.d
Informative Writing – 4 days
Students will research, draft, illustrate, and create books to teach younger students about the real story of the First Thanksgiving.
L.3.2.a RI.3.3 RI.3.6 RI.3.9 W.3.2 W.3.2.a W.3.7 W.3.8
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