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Present Essential Question to Class: ● Present the essential question, learning objectives, and “I can” statements, using student-friendly language. Clarify any questions that students have about the content and learning objectives. ● Have students preview the text to identify the vocabulary words for this week. Unpack the weekly vocabulary, as appropriate. Article 1: Timelines Word Count: 26 Vocabulary: timeline: shows things in the order they happen High Impact Teaching Strategies: Explicit Teaching, Multiple Exposures, Worked Examples Lesson Plan: 1. Review what was learned in the previous week about past, present, and future. As you review, assess student understanding and give feedback. Ask the following questions. Give the students the opportunity to share with a partner. Encourage use of the vocabulary words. a. What is the past? (everything that has already happened) i. What is something you did yesterday, in the past? (Answers may vary.) b. What is the present? (everything that is happening right now) i. What is something you are doing today, in the present? (Answers may vary.) c. What is the future? (everything that will happen but hasn’t happened yet) i. What is something you will do tomorrow, in the future? (Answers may vary.) 2. Have the students locate and read the title of the article. Have the students look at the images on the front cover of the student edition. Discuss the images. Ask: a. What do you notice about the images? (Answers may vary.) b. Do the images look like the same person? (Answers may vary.) c. How are the images different? (Answers may vary.) 3. Explain to the students that they are looking at a timeline. Write the word “timeline” on the board. Have the students use the pictures to try to determine the meaning of the word “timeline.” 4. Watch the video “Timelines - 1st.” Stop throughout the video to discuss what the video teaches about timelines. a. Have the students listen for what a timeline is and what it does. i. Explain: Timelines make it easy for us to see events in the order they happened. We read timelines like we read books. Older events are at the beginning, and newer events go to the right at the end. 5. Read the article together as the students follow along. Discuss the article. As you discuss, guide the students to use the image of the timeline on the front cover to better understand the text. a. Have a class discussion about timelines. Explain: Timelines show events in order. Timelines can show events from the past, present, and future. Timelines can show events in days, weeks, months, or years. b. Connect the images on the front with the definition of a timeline. Have the Changes Over Time | Week 21
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