Historical Fiction Graphic Organizer

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Active Learning | Adoption Level

Subject: Social Studies

Video Transcription

[Teacher Voiceover]

Today our students are connecting their social studies class with a historical fiction novel that they’re reading called my brother Sam is dead, and we’re taking three of the main characters and relating it to the theme of taking a stand against authority, and applying that information to the social studies curriculum.

By choosing the Inspiration software template that the students are using in class today, it is providing them with a graphic organizer that really helps them pinpoint exactly their thoughts. It zeroes in on what they need to think, and it gives them a guideline. The answers are not there, but there is a format for them to follow and that helps them to push through, over just having a blank sheet of paper. They can pretty much independently choose their own templates a lot of the time on what to use, and be self-directed.

Video Transcription
[Teacher Voiceover]

Today our students are connecting their social studies class with a historical fiction novel that they’re reading called my brother Sam is dead, and we’re taking three of the main characters and relating it to the theme of taking a stand against authority, and applying that information to the social studies curriculum.

By choosing the Inspiration software template that the students are using in class today, it is providing them with a graphic organizer that really helps them pinpoint exactly their thoughts. It zeroes in on what they need to think, and it gives them a guideline. The answers are not there, but there is a format for them to follow and that helps them to push through, over just having a blank sheet of paper. They can pretty much independently choose their own templates a lot of the time on what to use, and be self-directed.

Objectives

  • Students will read My Brother Sam is Dead.
  • Students will understand what it means to take a stand against authority.
  • Students will make a graphic organizer of their thoughts.

Procedure

  • Students will read My Brother Sam is Dead.
  • They will identify three of the characters in the book who take a stand against authority.
  • They will use a graphic organizer to identify ways in which these characters take a stand against authority.

Technology Present

  • Inspiration software
  • Computers for each student

Grade Level: 3-5

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Video Reference Number: 1048

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