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Unit 6
4th Grade
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Describe how the experience of fighting in World War II changed the people who returned home and how it changed the country.
Book: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson pp. 71 – 77 — Chapter 9
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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
Analyze and discuss unit essential questions by stating a claim and supporting the claim with details from multiple sources.
RI.4.9SL.4.1SL.4.4W.4.9
Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a unit essential question.
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.
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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