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Addy's Journey to Freedom
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Track #52790
Format: Resource list
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This track will take my students along with the American Girl Addy through a reading adventure. This adventure will take Addy to freedom and develop my students reading skills necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of the written text. It will also develop the structural and creative skills necessary to produce written language that can be read and interpreted by various audiences. This unit will also allow my students to tell others what they have learned in different ways. (Profiler #6)This unit was designed for my 3rd grade students as an educational tool to help them in reading by improving these standards: comprehension skills, vocabulary, inference, word recognition, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of the written text. Our school fell below the national average with cummulative average score of 84.7% in reading.
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The Whipping Boy
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Track #36044
Format: Resource list
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This track is for the book, The Whipping Boy. It was designed for my 3rd grade students as an educational tool to help them in reading by improving these standards: comprehension skills, vocabulary, inference, and predictions. Our school fell below the national average with cummulative average score of 84.7% in reading.
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4th Grade American Revolution
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Track #22457
Format: Resource list
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In evaluating the Tennessee School Report Card, we fall well below the national average with 83.8%. On a pretest about the Revolutionary War in my classroom, less than 50% of the students knew who fought in this war or why their was a Revolutionary War. This track was designed for my 4th grade students as an educational tool overviewing the Revolutionary War and to help the students exhibit a knowledge of history identifying and describing major events, people, and trends of this war.
A TN Curriculum Framework Content for History for grades 3-5 is:
Standard 1: Students will exhibit a knowledge of history identifying and describing major events, people, and trends. Some learning expectations to achieve this standard are: The learner will:
Recognize how the thirteen English colonies developed.
Examine the conflicts between the British and the colonies that led to war and independence.
Recognize how expansion of the new nation created conflict in North America.
Examine the roles and contributions made by African-Americans and other minority groups in American history.
In addition, this unit addresses these learning expectations from the profiler:
2. My students put themselves in their teammates' shoes during a discussion so they can understand their points better.
7. My students think of different ways to tell others what they have learned. 22. My students use Internet in my class to research topics. * 23. Teachers and/or students use Internet in to collaborate on projects with students in other classes.
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