UNIT X 202 | UNIT 6 Connect to the Theme • Activate prior knowledge Say: Building a Country Ask: What is a country? What country are we in? How do people who live in a country help build it? Cue students by pointing to the picture of the American flag. • Use a semantic organizer Sketch an idea map on the board. Write building a country in the center circle. Explain to students that people build the country they live in. The people who lived in the country before them also helped build it. One way to build countries is by making rules and agreements that everyone has to follow. Ask: How else do people build countries? How can ordinary citizens help build a country? In the outer circles, draw and label what students say. Guide them to include laws, buildings, following the rules, and going to school. Connect to THE THEME Play the Connect to the Theme video. Ask students to describe what they see. This will help you assess what vocabulary terms students already know. Theme-related Vocabulary Use pictures to identify theme Direct students’ attention to the photo. Ask: What do you see? Let students discover the following terms in context as they arise: flag, document, constitution, Declaration of Independence. Guide students to think about how laws and documents like the constitution and Declaration of Independence help build a country. Assess Language Levels Related to the Theme Answer questions Hold up the book and do a picture walk of Unit 6. Have students identify elements in the pictures. For example, point to the flag on page 208. Ask: Do you see a flag? Does your country have a flag? Is there a flag at school? If students respond easily to yes/no questions, progress to simple who, what, and where questions that can be answered with one or two words. For example: Who does the flag represent? Where do people use a flag? Finally, ask more advanced, open-ended questions that allow discussion. Ask: Does a flag help build a country? How? Is the flag connected to the documents on the page? Connect to the BIG Idea Develop prior knowledge Say: Many people helped build the United States of America. Connect this idea to prior knowledge of American history. Say: I know George Washington helped build the U.S.A. He was the first president. Extend this idea to other people, students, and ordinary citizens and how they help build the country. DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold As you introduce the concept of building a country, provide comprehensible input for new vocabulary. Create cards with new vocabulary: document, constitution, citizen, Declaration of Independence. Use examples to indicate that people use all of these ideas to build a country. Guide students to use the new vocabulary as they make statements about building a country. Amplify Have students say more about what they already know about the Declaration of Independence and the constitution. Model with sentence frames. I know the Declaration of Independence was important because____. (It made the United States separate from England.) I think the constitution is still important because___. (I hear about it in the news.) Building a Country BIG Idea Many people helped build the United States of America. Unit 6 202 UNIT 6 UNIT 6
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