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Uintah County School District
2011
Unit: _____4____
Week: _____2___
Constitution
Articles of
Confederation and
Constitutional
Convention
Focus Standards:
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W.5.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique,
descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
RL.5.6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
RF.5.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.5.4 (a): Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
L.5.4 (b): Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a
word (e.g., photograph, photosynthesis).
L.5.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade
5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Student Objectives:
 Write from a specific point of view.
 Study and memorize 10 grade-appropriate words with a common Greek or Latin affix or root.
 Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
Terminology:
point of view
ballad
meter
rhyme scheme
Comprehension Strategy:
 Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)
 Ask questions throughout the reading process.
 Summarize text; include sequence of main events (journal or Stop and Write)
Genre Focus: Historical Fiction
Uintah County School District
2011
Read Aloud
Shared
Reading
Cheney, Lynne
(2008) We the
People – The
Story of Our
Constitution
Biography,
“Father of the
Constitution”,
p.136-137,
Literacy by
Design, Rigby
Sourcebook
Volume 1.
Ratification
Ballad – see
link
Houghton
Mifflin Leveled
Readers – The
Constitutional
Convention
Fradin, Dennis
Brindell (2005)
The Founders
– The 39
Stories Behind
the U.S.
Constitution
Interactive
Writing/Edit
Independent
Writing
Guided
Reading/Book
Clubs/Reciproc
al Teaching
“A Not Very
Well-Kept
Secret”, p.140145, Literacy
by Design,
Rigby
Sourcebook
Volume 1.
Independent
Reading
Center for
Civic
Education (free
classroom sets)
We the People
– The Citizen
and the
Constitution –
Unit 2
Word Work
Callella, Trisha (2004) Greek and Latin Roots – Teaching Vocabulary
to Improve Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary, “Whom Should I Believe”, p.133-134, Literacy by Design,
Rigby Sourcebook Volume 1.
Word Study, “The Constitution of the United States”, p.138-139,
Literacy by Design, Rigby Sourcebook Volume 1.
Vocabulary, “Ratify Now!”, p.146-147, Literacy by Design, Rigby
Sourcebook Volume 1.
Fritz, Jean.
(1998) Shh!
We're Writing
the
Constitution
Levy,
Elizabeth. If
You Were
There When
They Signed
the
Constitution
Vocabulary
Assessment
/Rubrics
Technology
Uintah County School District
2011
Weaknesses of
the Articles of
Confederation
Each student
will write a
point of view
paragraph as if
they lived
during this
time period
and had to
decide whether
they wanted
the states to be
strong and the
central
government
not as strong, a
federation as
described on
the first couple
of pages of
Fritz’ book, or
the central
government to
be stronger
than the states.
(Washington
and Hamilton’s
viewpoint)
constitution,
confederation,
delegate,
framers,
convention,
Great
Compromise,
abolish, threefifths clause,
slavery
Paragraph
rubric –
http://schoolwe
b.psdschools.or
g/webber/files/
Expository%20
paragraph%20r
ubric.pdf
Paragraph rubric http://www.woodsholemuseum.org/woodspages/sprtsl/v2n1-Ratifi.pdf
– Ratification Ballad
http://www.usconstitution.net/constkids4.html
http://ratify.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/index_no_flash.php
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/usconstitution/previe
w.weml
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/magnacarta/
A More Perfect Union – DVD
Uintah County School District
2011