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This weekly lesson plan goes along with the common core curriculum map for 2nd grade: Journey to Freedom. It is the SECOND week in my Journey to Freedom Unit.
In this weekly lesson plan, students will be reading a biographical novel about Harriet Tubman. They will learn about her life as a slave and her role in the Underground Railroad. They will compare their life to the life of Harriet Tubman as a child. They will learn the meaning of the lyrics "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and write an imaginative narrative about their travels on the Underground Railroad.
By the end of the week, they are able to:
answer questions related to Harriet Tubman’s life.
explain the lyrics to “ Follow the Drinking Gourd” .
write an imaginative narrative about the Underground Railroad.
The weekly lesson was written around the book:
Lead Us to Freedom, Harriet Tubman by Peter and Connie Roop
**When I wrote this lesson, Scholastic Book Clubs was selling the book for $1. It is a very good book for 2nd graders. Scholastic has is leveled as a Guided Reading Level O. It is a very good book to read and discuss with the students.
You could read this book to students orally (1 copy of the book) and then have them do the response questions with you. If you want them to do some of the work independently, they will need their own book.
The Zipped File contains:
The lesson plan contains the following:
+Common Core Standards
+I can statements
+Detailed plans for the week (4 pages)
1 student response booklet template to copy for each student (8 pages)- the booklet is formatted to be printed front and back so that when you fold it all the pages line up. You don't have to print it as a book. You could copy it and cut the pages so that the students can paste them into their reading journals.
1- Drinking Gourd (Big Dipper) template
No weekly test - culminating activity is a writing activity
The Common Core Standards addressed are:
RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
RI.2.10 By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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