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Present Guiding Question to Class: Present the essential question, learning objectives, and student “I can” statements. Have students preview the text to identify the vocabulary words for this week. Unpack weekly vocabulary, as appropriate. Article 1: Important Documents Word Count: 57 Vocabulary: N/A High Impact Teaching Strategies: Collaborative Learning, Explicit Teaching Lesson Plan: 1. Have students call out documents that they think are important. (driver’s license, passport, birth certificate, contract, identity card, library card, etc.) 2. Give students a minute to reflect on what makes each of the documents they mentioned important. What do the documents allow them to do? What do they think about important documents? Have them discuss this with a partner. 3. Read the article. 4. Explain to students that every country has its own important documents. Explain that some of these documents have laws written on them. People can refer to these documents in order to ensure that something is not against the law. 5. Encourage students to ask questions. 6. As a class, identify the main idea in the article. (Governments make laws and display them in important documents.) 7. Have students copy the main idea in their interactive notebooks. Article Assessment Questions: 1. Where are laws written down? a. documents b. letters c. newspapers d. notes 2. What is not an important document of the United States? a. the Bill of Rights b. the Attorneys’ Guide c. the United States Constitution d. the Declaration of Independence Materials Needed: N/A Online Related Media: N/A Extended Reading Articles: N/A
Important Documents | Week 6
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