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 * **Preparation** || **Implementation** ||
 * Teacher/Grade: 3rd

__Dates/Times:__ Our schedule will be as follows: Thursday of the 2nd week to make final preparations and decide who will teach what portion of the lesson and how the other will assist. **Schedule for collaborating to complete assignment: 4.1 Monday - Saturday early mornings and late evenings with the time changes between Texas and Hawaii 4.2 Monday-Thursday evenings online 7:30-9:00 4.3 Monday- Thursday evenings online and phone if necessary 7:30-9:00.**
 * Week 1:** Mon. and Wed. from 3:45-5:00 for collaboration for 1 week.
 * Week 2**: Mon. and Wed. from 3:45 -5:00 for gathering reviewing resources/ making copies

__ Topic/Curriculum Standards: __ Holiday celebrations around the world with a focus on Thanksgiving
 * Social Studies**:

3.12 Culture. The student understands ethnic and/or cultural celebrations of the United States and other nations.

Reading Comprehension Strategy : Using Background Knowledge
 * Reading Language Arts**:

Reading, listening and speaking to gain knowledge of the differences in holiday celebrations in the United States and around the world.

3.2: A, B Listening/Speaking/Culture. The student listens and speaks to gain knowledge of his/her own culture, the culture of others, and the common elements of cultures.

Please locate and include the 3rd-grade TEKS related to using background knowledge for comprehension.

Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge. 1.1 Skills: 1.1.6: Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format(e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make a inferences and gather meaning.
 * AASL Standards:**

There is a more appropriate AASL indicator related to using prior knowledge. Please include it or replace this one.

__Learning Objectives:__ After reading about holiday celebrations around the world with a focus on Thanksgiving, the students will be able to 1. To use their background knowledge to explain the difference in cultural celebrations that take place in Texas, US, and other parts of the world. 2. Compare cultural celebrations that take place in Texas, the US and other parts of the world.

Be consistent. Keep the alignment tight!

__Evaluation Criteria/Tool(s):__ Self-Assessment student rubric Teacher Assessment Rubric Thank you for sharing these. They are a very good start, but both of these assessment rubrics need to mention using background knowledge, which is a key learning objective for this lesson. Yes?

__Resources Required: ​ __ We can choose a couple of these books for use in the lesson, these are just ideas. // Celebrate Thanksgiving // by Heiligman, Deborah //Thanksgiving// by Trueit, Trudi Strain //Thanksgiving Day// by Gail Robinson //A Thanksgiving holiday cookbook// by Emily Raabe //The Autumn Equinox: Celebrating the Harvest// by Ellen Jackson //All About Sukkot// by Judyth Saypol Groner

__Materials Required:__ 11x18 multi-colored construction paper for placemats Scissors Crayons Glue sticks

Graphic Organizer BKWL-Q chart Please see my comment in the next column related to this graphic organizer.

Electronic pathfinder for student use along with a guided tour of web sites before using them independently in lab setting.

Internet access I still have this question: Will third graders be able to comprehend the information found on these Web sites? Will you create an electronic pathfinder for them to use? Canadian Thanksgiving: URL- [] American Thanksgiving: URL- [] Chinese Harvest/Thanksgiving: URL- [] Yam Festival in Ghana and Nigeria: URL- [] Publisher by Microsoft: To design placemat for presentation and print. Brainpop Jr. Movie: URL- [] Follow up with interactive activities and a Thankful Turkey print out. || __Librarian Responsibilities:__ Gather reading resources and prepare technical equipment and check all equipment to make sure it works.

__Teacher Responsibi____lities:__ The teacher will prepare the students for creating their placemat by reading in class and making text-to-world connections prior to the creation of the placemat. (Normally, students would make text-to-self - background knowledge - connections first... especially if that is the reading comprehension strategy focus on the lesson.)

Teaching the students about Holiday celebrations from around the world with a focus on Thanksgiving will take two, 45 minute lessons. The students will have their BKWL-Q chart, as well as a venn diagram comparing the celebrations prepared for the placemat lesson in the computer lab. Students will also have started a list of resources which will be finished in the computer lab.

Books will be read in the classroom by teacher with assistance from teacher-librarian. Cookbook will be used in smaller groups to plan class feast.

BKWLQ will be completed in the classroom with teacher/teacher-librarian building students background knowledge.

My understanding is you will be building students' background knowledge before they write what they know, ask questions, and conduct reach about a particular harvest feast. Right? This isn't crystal clear - yet.

Web sites will be incorporated in one 45-50 minute lesson in the computer lab by teacher-librarian and classroom teacher assisting as students are guided through sites to gather information.

Publisher will be used in a lab setting to design student placemat. Placemats will then be attached to the 11x18 paper for the presentation. Students will follow student checklist to meet the standards addressed in the lesson and as a self-evaluation.

This is a great way to enliven the presentation with sharing the product. You may want to do this in half-class groups in consideration of students' attention spans. You may also want to be sure students are sharing something about their own family's celebration (again the connection to background knowledge. This could also be presented for parents - before a classroom feast.

To assess the understanding of Thanksgiving today providing a connection with past and present, students will watch video produced by Brainpop Jr. and take quiz. (I would love to see this - but decided not to subscribe today. The last time I did this, I was flooded with emails!) Teacher-Assessment Rubric will be used to assess students final product. ||