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Unit 2
3rd Grade
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Write a few sentences describing the challenges and rewards of being in the New World.
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Imagine that you, like Lizzy, have just arrived in the New World. Write a few sentences that describe the challenges and rewards of being in the New World. Make sure your sentences include important facts and details to help the reader visualize what it was like on the ship.
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L.3.1.f — Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
L.3.1.h — Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
L.3.1.i — Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
RI.3.3 — Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
W.3.2 — Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
W.3.4 — With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1—3 above.)
W.3.5 — With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
W.3.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Describe who the Wampanoag were and what they valued.
Explain what motivated the settlement and colonization of the New World and what challenges the explorers faced.
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RI.3.3
Describe the conditions on the Mayflower and why so many people decided to take the journey.
RI.3.3RI.3.6
Describe Lizzy's experiences on the Mayflower and the challenges she faced.
Describe what life was like on the Mayflower by writing a variety of compound sentences.
L.3.1L.3.1.hL.3.1.iRI.3.3
Explain why the Pilgrims were not satisfied with Cape Cod and why they were satisfied with Plymouth.
Explain what readers learn from Lizzy about what life was like in the "New World."
2 days
L.3.1.fL.3.1.hL.3.1.iRI.3.3W.3.2
Describe key aspects of Wampanoag culture.
Analyze how the Wampanoag viewed the Pilgrims and explain why.
Explain how the arrival of European explorers impacted the Wampanoag.
RI.3.3RI.3.9
Explain why Squanto chose to help the Pilgrims.
RI.3.3RI.3.6RI.3.9
Use subordinating conjunctions to write more interesting and complex sentences.
L.3.1.hL.3.1.i
Analyze what information is missing about the Wampanoag.
Describe the Wampanoag's relationship with the colonists.
Discuss unit essential question using information from multiple texts and sources.
RI.3.3SL.3.1SL.3.1.aSL.3.1.d
Draft a paragraph describing what it was like to be a Wampanoag in 1621.
RI.3.3W.3.2W.3.2.a
Analyze an account of the first Thanksgiving and explain what happened.
Discuss unit essential questions using information from multiple texts and sources.
RI.3.6RI.3.9SL.3.1SL.3.1.aSL.3.1.d
4 days
Students will research, draft, illustrate, and create books to teach younger students about the real story of the First Thanksgiving.
L.3.2.aRI.3.3RI.3.6RI.3.9W.3.2W.3.2.aW.3.7W.3.8
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