4th Reading/Writing Planning
Sept. 17, 2019 - Plan for Sept. 23-27 & 9/ 30--10/4, 2019
Module Testing
Planning - Module 2 Week 3 & Module 3 Week 1
Module 2 assessment- October 3
Module 2 Week 3: (Lessons 11-15) Sept. 25-Oct. 3
- Theme: Use Your Words
- Essential Question: How do people use words to express themselves?
- Vocabulary
- Essential Skills- Visualize, plot, figurative language, author's craft
- Week At A Glance
- Literacy Centers-Reading, writing, teacher
- Writing Workshop-Text- The Lemonade War
- Genre: Informational text writing-Letter writing
- Focal statement: The future me is open for all possibilities.
- Writing TEKS:
Module 3 Week 1: (Lessons 1-5) Begins October 4
- Theme: Rise to the Occasion
- Essential Question: What does it take to meet a challenge?
- Vocabulary
- Essential Skills- Identify claim, synthesize, author's craft, plot, theme
- Week At A Glance
- Literacy Centers-Reading, writing, teacher
- Writing Workshop-Text- Kite Fighters
- Genre: Argument writing
- Focal statement: Friends and family can work together to overcome challenges.
- Writing TEKS:
Writing
Prewrite-
- Brainstorm with circle map
- Bubble map for describing, using vivid language, characteristics, qualities
- Tree map if they need to sort, categorize, give details
- Flow map-sequence ideas and add details for each paragraph (BME)
- Add introduction and conclusion to flow map.
- Take information from the tree or flow to create paragraphs for the story.
Revise and Edit according to the textbook
Circle map-Brainstorm/Plan
Flow map-Sequence/organize/add details
Tree-organize/add details
Social Studies
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Unit 2: Lessons 1-4 (3 weeks) Sept. 23-Oct. 11
Concepts/Main Idea*
American Indians lived in North America before Europeans colonized the continent.
People migrate and move to new lands for different reasons.
When people move to a place, they may change that place or be changed in many ways.
Many aspects of our present-day culture come from people who moved here long ago.
European explorers journeyed through areas that became Mexico, Texas, and the southern United States looking for riches and lands to claim.
Spanish settlement and the mixing of Spanish and American Indian cultures resulted in benefits and losses.
Tejanos helped win Mexico’s fight for independence, settling Texas and building frontier communities.
Immigrants from the United States settled in Mexican Texas, bringing their culture with them.
Essential Questions
1. What are the possible origins of the first people to arrive in North America and Texas?
2. How do people adapt to where they live?
3. What was life like in Texas for American Indians?
4. What was life like for American Indians in North America?
5. Why do some people leave their homelands?
6. Why did European explorers come to the Americas?
7. How did Mexico’s independence from Spain affect Texans?
8. What was life like for the new settlers to Texas?
TEKS-Unit 2
1(A) Explain the possible origins of American Indian groups in Texas and North America.
1(B) Identify American Indian groups in Texas and North America before European exploration.
1(C) Describe the regions in which American Indians lived and identify American Indian groups remaining in Texas.
1(D) Compare the ways of life of American Indian groups in Texas and North America before European exploration.
2(A) Summarize motivations for European exploration and settlement in Texas
2(B) Identify the accomplishments and explain the impact of significant explorers on the settlement of Texas.
2(C) Explain when, where, and why the Spanish established settlements and Catholic missions in Texas.
2(D) Identify Texas’ role in the Mexican War of Independence and the war’s impact on the development of Texas.
2(E) Identify the accomplishments and explain the economic motivations and impact of significant empresarios.
6(B) Translate geographic data, population distribution, and natural resources into a variety of formats.
8(A) Identify and explain clusters and patterns of settlement in Texas at different periods of time.
8(B) Describe the location of various towns and cities in Texas, past and present.
8(C) Explain the geographic factors such as landforms and climate that influence patterns of settlement and the distribution of population in Texas, past and present.
9(A) Describe ways people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas, past and present, such as timber clearing, agricultural production, wetlands drainage, energy production, and construction of dams.
9(B) Identify reasons why people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas, past and present, such as the use of natural resources to meet basic needs, facilitate transportation, and enhance recreational activities.
10(A) Explain the economic activities various early American Indian groups in Texas used to meet their needs and wants.
12(A) Explain how people in different regions of Texas earn their living, past and present. 12(B) Explain how geographic factors have influenced the location of economic activities in Texas.
12(C) Analyze the effects of exploration, immigration, migration, and limited resources on the economic development and growth of Texas.
14(A) Compare how various American Indian groups governed themselves.
14(B) Identify and compare characteristics of the Spanish colonial government, the early Mexican governments, and their influence on inhabitants of Texas.
16(A) Explain the meaning of various patriotic symbols and landmarks of Texas.
17(D) Identify the importance of historical figures and important individuals who modeled active participation in the democratic process.
19(C) Summarize the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the development of Texas.
20(A) Identify famous inventors and scientists and their contributions.