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Who Was John Chapman?
Grade Level:
2
Subject:
Fact or Legend?
Topic:
John Chapman's birthday will fall on 9/26. This will lesson will also introduce the students to the genre of biography. By the end of year, the students need to be reading and comprehending informational texts, including history/social studies texts. We will be reading several short biographies this year to give them practice.
Objective:
I can understand what the author is trying to teach me. RI.2.6
Other Information:
This lesson correlates with the 2nd grade teacher's apple theme for September.
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This lesson was taught the week of 9/16-9/20 and I made several changes after trying it out with the first class. One change I made was to drop the group discussion after the "Pair and Share" for lack of time.
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Who Was John Chapman by Patsy Becvar, document camera, Smartboard and projector, Fact and legend pages for students, pencils, and markers, apple
