Content Learning Activity #3
In these cross-curricular lessons, students will learn about Hatshepsut, the first female pharaoh, and complete a relevant Mobile Learning activity. This activity blends the subject areas of English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Mobile Learning.
Lesson Plan
Background -
Content Area: English Language Arts (with Social Studies and Mobile Learning embedded)
Target Group: 6th Grade
Lesson Title: Hatshepsut, His Majesty Herself
Materials:
Target Group: 6th Grade
Lesson Title: Hatshepsut, His Majesty Herself
Materials:
- Text: "Hatshepsut, His Majesty Herself" (required in PSUSD StudySync curriculum)
- "Hatshepsut, His Majesty Herself" slide deck
- 1:1 iPads (via cart available for check out from the library)
- Google Classroom and Google Slides apps (for the overall lesson interface and work flow)
- GeoWalk app (Social Studies content-area app; used for hook)
- StudySync app (ELA content-area app; used for explanation)
- Timeline (ELA and Social Studies content-area app; used as check for understanding)
- Trading Cards (ELA content-area app; used as extended practice)
- Fact Fragment Frenzy (ELA content-area app; used in closing)
- Popplet (ELA content-area app; used to create Flow Map in closing)
Preplanning -
Big Idea(s):
Essential Questions:
Objectives:
Summative Assessment:
- Students must be able to close read informational text.
- Students must be able to summarize and paraphrase text using their own words.
- Students must be able to work effectively in collaborative groups, sharing responsibility and following agreed upon discussion protocols.
Essential Questions:
- How do strong readers isolate keywords and details to use in text summaries?
- How does history inform and inspire us?
Objectives:
- Students will close read text and isolate key terms that relate the central idea of the text.
- Students will utilize key terms in the text to summarize the central idea and paraphrase related details.
- Students will engage in collaborative conversations and produce a collaborative timeline.
- Students will create a Flow Map to demonstrate their understanding of a text read independently.
Summative Assessment:
- Students will take the KDS Green Test (administered via SchoolCity, as required by PSUSD ELA curriculum and assessment)
Lesson Opening -
The Hook: Students will open their slide decks using the Google Classroom and Google Slides apps. The instructor will review the lesson objectives and essential questions. Then, students will explore the broad topic of Ancient Egypt using the GeoWalk app. Students will have approximately 10 minutes to explore and then post their observations on the class Padlet wall. Students must include an image with their post. The instructor will then provide students with an additional 5 minutes to respond to a classmates' post using the Padlet comments feature.
Lesson Body -
Explanation: Students will preview the text by watching the introductory book trailer in the StudySync app. Then, students will close read the text "Hatshepsut: His Majesty Herself" in the app, highlighting and annotating paragraphs 1-10 of the text as a whole group. Modeling and instruction should focus on identifying informational text features and isolating the most important words and phrases to use as points of reference during the summarizing and paraphrasing process. Then, students will highlight and annotate paragraphs 11-15 of the text in small groups, followed by whole-class dissemination. Discussion will again focus on isolating key words and phrases that speak to the central ideas of the text. This will assist students in more effective summary, paraphrasing, and further topical research. Students will work independently to highlight and annotate paragraphs 16-18 of the text. In partners, students will discuss several text dependent questions using the 30/30 Chat strategy. In small groups, students will answer several text dependent questions using the RACES paragraph strategy.
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Check for Understanding: Students will return to the focus text, "Hatshepsut: His Majesty, Herself" and create a timeline of the key events covered in the selection. Students will work together in partners to paraphrase the action using only the terms isolated during the Explanation stage. Students will screen capture their timelines and embed them in their copy of the slide deck. This step will function as a check for understanding to ensure that students were able to isolate the most important keywords and then paraphrase the text in their own words. The instructor will rotate and monitor student work, offering guidance and correction as needed.
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Extended Practice: To fully demonstrate understanding, students will close the lesson by independently creating character a trading card for Hatshepsut. Students will hone in on the most important words in the text, the keywords, and use them to paraphrase their learning about this significant figure who is central to ancient Egyptian history. Character cards will be screen captured and embedded in the student slide decks.
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Closing -
Lesson Closing: Students will self-select a grade level passage to read. Their task is to isolate key words and phrases pertaining to the central idea of the passage they read. Then, students will create a Flow Map using Popplet. The Flow Map must summarize the central idea of the selection they read, paraphrasing key details from the text. Students will include at least one relevant image.
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