Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Explain who is speaking in the prologue and why the author would choose to write this way.

Heart and Soul — Prologue (p. 7)

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)

Heart and Soul pp. 8–13

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.7RI.4.8

Explain how the author uses details and illustrations to build a deeper understanding of slavery.

Heart and Soul pp. 15–21 — Chapter 2

Standards

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."

Heart and Soul pp. 23–24 — Chapter 3 (stop on bottom of third paragraph)

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8

Explain where Frederick Douglass found his inspiration and drive.

Hand in Hand pp. 27–32 — "Fredrick Douglass"

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.8

Analyze the details an author includes to support a quote by Harriet Tubman.

Let It Shine pp. 17–22 — Harriet Tubman (stop at the top of page 22)

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.8

Explain the significance of the quote "Harriet Tubman’s name will never lose its distinction."

Let It Shine pp. 22–27

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.8

2 days

Write a multiple-paragraph essay about how courageous individuals create and drive change.

Heart and Soul
Let It Shine
Hand in Hand
Informational Writing Rubric (G4)

Standards

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.

Heart and Soul pp. 24–27 — Chapter 3

Standards

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.

Heart and Soul — Chapter 4

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8SL.4.1

Discussion

Analyze and discuss unit essential questions by stating a claim and supporting the claim with details from multiple sources.

Hand in Hand
Heart and Soul

Standards

RI.4.9SL.4.1SL.4.4W.4.9

Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a unit essential question.

Hand in Hand
Heart and Soul
Let It Shine
Informational Writing Rubric (G4)

Standards

W.4.2W.4.2.aW.4.2.bW.4.2.cW.4.2.dW.4.2.e

Defend how Reconstruction was supported by segregationist beliefs.

Heart and Soul pp. 39–45

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8SL.4.1

Explain what life was like on the frontier for Buffalo Soldiers and freed Black people.

Heart and Soul — Chapter 6

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8

Explain what effect the Great Migration had on the lives of African Americans and the challenges they faced in their new communities.

Heart and Soul pp. 53–61 — Chapter 7

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.5RI.4.8

Describe the progress African Americans made in the early twentieth century.

Heart and Soul pp. 62–69 — Chapter 8

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.8

Describe how the experience of fighting in World War II changed the people who returned home and how it changed the country.

Heart and Soul pp. 71–77 — Chapter 9

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.7RI.4.8

Explain why the author titles the chapter "Black Innovation."

Heart and Soul pp. 79–80 — Chapter 10

Standards

RI.4.8

Explain how Jim Crow was dying.

Heart and Soul — Chapter 11

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.8

Explain why the author titles the last chapter "Revolution" and why what happened was a revolution.

Heart and Soul pp. 91–95

Standards

RI.4.3RI.4.8SL.4.1

Explain the significance of the final quote in Heart and Soul.

Heart and Soul — Epilogue

Standards

RI.4.8

Discussion

Debate and discuss unit Essential Questions.

Hand in Hand
Heart and Soul
Let It Shine

Standards

RI.4.9SL.4.1SL.4.4W.4.9

Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a unit Essential Question.

All unit texts
Informational Writing Rubric (G4)

Standards

W.4.2W.4.2.aW.4.2.bW.4.2.cW.4.2.dW.4.2.e

6 days

Research and present about an African American leader.

Let It Shine
Hand in Hand
Informational Writing Rubric (G4)

Standards

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