Curriculum / ELA / 4th Grade / Unit 6: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans / Lesson 11
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Unit 6
4th Grade
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Analyze and discuss unit essential questions by stating a claim and supporting the claim with details from multiple sources.
Book: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Pinkney
Book: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
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Pick one of the essential questions from the unit to debate and discuss:
How have racist ideas and racism shaped the United States’ history and policies?
What are some of the key events in United States history since the 1600s? How did each event impact life for African Americans?
How can courageous individuals create and drive change?
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RI.4.9 — Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
SL.4.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.4.4 — Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
W.4.9 — Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.4.3 — Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.4.6 — Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
W.4.10 — 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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Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a unit essential question.
Explain who is speaking in the prologue and why the author would choose to write this way.
Standards
RI.4.6RI.4.8
Explain the significance of the statement: "It should have been a proud moment for everybody, but, honey, we didn’t have much to celebrate." (p. 13)
RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.7RI.4.8
Explain how the author uses details and illustrations to build a deeper understanding of slavery.
RI.4.7RI.4.8
Analyze what evidence the author includes to support the statement that abolitionists "lit a fire inside many a slave to take their freedom."
RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8
Explain where Frederick Douglass found his inspiration and drive.
RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.8
Analyze the details an author includes to support a quote by Harriet Tubman.
RI.4.3RI.4.8
Explain the significance of the quote "Harriet Tubman’s name will never lose its distinction."
2 days
Write a multiple-paragraph essay about how courageous individuals create and drive change.
W.4.2W.4.2.aW.4.2.bW.4.2.cW.4.2.dW.4.2.e
Explain the events that led up to the South being ready for a fight.
RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.7
Explain why the chapter was titled "Lincoln’s War" and if Lincoln’s actions helped or hurt the conditions for enslaved people.
RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8SL.4.1
RI.4.9SL.4.1SL.4.4W.4.9
Defend how Reconstruction was supported by segregationist beliefs.
Explain what life was like on the frontier for Buffalo Soldiers and freed Black people.
Explain what effect the Great Migration had on the lives of African Americans and the challenges they faced in their new communities.
Describe the progress African Americans made in the early twentieth century.
Describe how the experience of fighting in World War II changed the people who returned home and how it changed the country.
Explain why the author titles the chapter "Black Innovation."
RI.4.8
Explain how Jim Crow was dying.
Explain why the author titles the last chapter "Revolution" and why what happened was a revolution.
RI.4.3RI.4.8SL.4.1
Explain the significance of the final quote in Heart and Soul.
Debate and discuss unit Essential Questions.
Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a unit Essential Question.
6 days
Research and present about an African American leader.
RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.7RI.4.8SL.4.1SL.4.4SL.4.5W.4.2W.4.2.aW.4.2.bW.4.2.cW.4.2.dW.4.2.eW.4.7W.4.8W.4.9
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