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SHORT RESEARCH PROJECT ON AFRICA: GENERATING QUESTIONS
 * CCSS ALIGNED NARRATIVES OF LESSONS/RUBRICS/STUDENT WORK 2012-PRESENT: **



Folktales about Wisdom and Cleverness (rubric attached below and student work): If you are up against an enemy who is big and strong and you need to save your life, how are you going to do it ?



Students picked an invention, did some research, thought about the impact of the invention, and created an ebook using Book Creator. We used the fun app called Pettson's Inventions to hook the students into thinking about inventions. Then we had them research the who/when/where of the invention, and create a book with a thoughtful introduction, analysis of the problem the invention solved and the way it changed people's lives, and a conclusion. Then synching the iPads, we created a bookshelf of inventions books!
 * Culture and folktales:**
 * Folktales from different cultures: Note-taking & paragraph writing activity[[file:display culture.docx]][[image:cutlure notetaking pebblego.jpg width="240" height="307"]][[image:chinese culture 3rd grstudent work.jpg width="320" height="411"]][[image:italian culture 3rd gr student work.jpg width="320" height="411"]][[image:deaf culture essay2 pg 1.jpg width="320" height="411"]][[image:deaf culture essay2 pg 2.jpg width="320" height="411"]]
 * **Science integration**

**CURRICULUM MAPS 2010-2011**
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 * Curriculum overview for the year**

Orientation lesson for 3-5th

Information Detectives Unit: Level 1 (sections of the library) to Level 2 (using catalog) to Level 3 (using library website as a portal to the Internet).

How can you use your keyboarding skills to create visual (and correctly punctuated) poetry? See 2nd gr Unit 2 for updated curriculum map. This one is an older version.
 * Unit 2**:


 * Unit 2.5**: Practicing Math online

Making inferences from excerpts/comics/poems/primary docs & paintings
 * Unit 3**: How do you figure out what an author is talking about if he doesn’t tell you everything?


 * Unit 4**: Reading informational texts/thinking/taking two-column notes about a country (see Grade 5)

Booktalks and narratives from point of view of Deaf/CODA people
 * Unit 5**: What are the different point of views of Deaf and CODAs?

Types of folktales
 * Unit 6**: How is the story told? The clues behind the different kinds of folktales

Shares favorites with others (Info Fluency 3.2.1)
 * Writes book talks/recommendations/reviews (based on character, setting, plot analysis worksheet) on [|Read Kiddo Read] (Info Fluency 3.2.1, 2.3.1)
 * Celebrates when they read all of one series, one subject, or one author during Spirit Day (Info Fluency 2.3.1, 2.3.3)

Unit 6: Digital Citizenship (Info Fluency 3.3.3) Unit 7: Poetry/Multimedia presentations of poems (Info Fluency 3.2.5, 1.6.3) [|Interactive poetry links] Unit 8: Booktalks: Fantasy/Poetry

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 * Magazines: Nice [|intro] to different types of magazines (Info Fluency 2.1.7, 1.3.6, 1.3.7)
 * [|Advertisements] : Identifying Techniques they use online, in magazines, commercials, etc. (Info Fluency 1.3.7, 1.3.9, 1.3.11)
 * Immigration interview: