January 2019

A Hero in the Family

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Listen and Read Together

Extend the Lesson

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Design a Poster: A Hero in the Family

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will evaluate the traits of a hero by studying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s character traits and how those traits helped him make important changes in our country.

 

Social Studies Focus:

history; American heroes

 

ELA Skills:

key details, connecting ideas, primary sources, vocabulary, automaticity, text evidence, writing

 

Page 4 Skill:

read an interview

 

Vocabulary:

segregation, speeches, marches, inspired

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1, RI.2.3, RI.2.4, RI.2.8, RI.2.10, RF.2.4.B, W.2.8, SL.2.2