Greetings! Anyone have info they'd be willing to share on Rev War
references/sitea/units they've done/used? I teach reading to all the 5th
graders in my building so I'm primarily looking for literacy related items
rather than social studies.
I thought perhaps I might begin the unit by po
Hi Judy --
If the students have some background about the social and political environment
of the time period because they are studying it with their social studies
teacher, what about a historical fiction unit? Perhaps you can have book clubs
reading different
titles, and their task is to exa
This is not a suggestion for a book, but for a visual literacy activity that I
have used across grade levels with tremendous success. I seek images,
obviously, in this case, things like paintings, drawings and excerpts from
primary documents, and blow them up as large as possible. I like to us
Tell us more about poster conversations!!
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From: EDWARD JACKSON
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:17:26
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Revolutionary War unit help request
This is not a suggestion for a book, but for a visual
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From: "Judy Dotson"
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Subject: [MOSAIC] Revolutionary War unit help request
Greetings! Anyone have info they'd be willing to share on Rev War
references/sitea/units they've done/used? I teach re
07, 2010 10:52 AM
> Subject: [MOSAIC] Revolutionary War unit help request
>
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> Greetings! Anyone have info they'd be willing to share on Rev War
> references/sitea/units they've done/used? I teach reading to all the 5th
> graders in my building so I'm primarily looking
Tell me more about poster conversations!!
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM, EDWARD JACKSON wrote:
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> This is not a suggestion for a book, but for a visual literacy activity
> that I have used across grade levels with tremendous success. I seek
> images, obviously, in this case, things like paint
You place a short, provocative text or visual (generally enlarged) in the
middle of poster paper (or a sheet of big tablet paper). Each member of the
conversation team had a different colored pen/marker/pencil. They are
generally given some sort of thinking prompt and asked to notate the text
Ditto. My fifth and sixth graders got lots of deep thinking out of this
bookand we used it as historical fiction to check out the actual
history. In reading logs they had to note things they would want to check
as historically accurate, they had to note incidents where characters shared
diffe
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>>> On 5/5/2010 at 10:38 pm, in message
>>> , Sally Thomas
>>> wrote:
Ditto. My fifth and sixth graders got lots of deep thinking out of this
bookand we used it as historical fiction to check out the actual
history. In reading logs they had to note things th
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channel's web site. Very interesting.
Deb
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From: Beverlee Paul
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Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 3:55 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Revolutionary War unit help request
Tell me more about poster con
home (and they weren't asked
to). Hope these ideas help.
Deb
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From: Ron Borchert
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Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 8:13 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Revolutionary War unit help request
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