The year was broken into modules, each module focusing on different works and areas of study.
Module 1 Introduction: Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn: Stories of Human Rights
| The rights of citizens in the United States are similar to and different from the right of citizens in other nations of the Western Hemisphere.
• Constitutions, rules, and laws are developed in democratic societies in order to maintain order, provide security, and protect individual rights.
• Different people living in the Western Hemisphere may view the same event or issue from different perspectives.
• The migration of groups of people in the United States, Canada, and Latin America has led to cultural diffusion because people carry their ideas and way of live with
them when they move from place to place.
• Connections and exchanges exist between and among the peoples of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. These
connections and exchanges include social/cultural, migration/immigration, and scientific/technological. Vocabulary follow, participate, criteria, skills, human rights, define, summarize, primary source, United Nations, dignity, equal, endowed, reason, conscience, brotherhood Module 2: Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Inventions That Changed People’s Lives In this unit, students begin to build background knowledge about the process of scientific inquiry and how new or improved technologies are developed to meet the needs of society. Students begin the unit by reading the graphic novel Investigating the Scientific Method with Max Axiom Super Scientist. As they read, they focus on identifying the steps Max Axiom, the main character, takes to solve a societal problem, as well as analyzing how the visual elements found in a graphic novel support their understanding of complex ideas Vocabulary technologies, societal needs, structure, visual elements, engage, support, complex, norms, locate, discuss, genre, graphic novel, analyze, splash page, predictions, established criteria, select, close-up image, scenes, sequentially, random, passage (of time), locations Module 3 Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions: Balancing Competing Needs in Canada In this first unit, students read The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations, by Alootook Ipellie with David MacDonald, to learn about how the native Inuit people of Canada came to settle in the area and the ways they used the resources that were available to meet their basic needs. As students read each section of the book, they will work in small groups to create “resource webs” that help them recognize the relationship between Inuit people and resources from their environment. Vocabulary visual gist, adapt, resources, available, needs, convey(ed), complex, relationships, determine, independent, criteria; landscape, land bridge, climate, relied Module 4: Building Background Knowledge and Making Inferences: What is A Natural Disaster? This module engages students in a high-interest topic—natural disasters—with a literacy focus on point of view in literature, research, opinion writing, and public speaking. The module integrates science content (about extreme natural events) with a Social Studies focus on the Western Hemisphere and the role of multinational organizations. Vocabulary natural, disaster, inference, draw, conclusion relationship, concepts, cause, effect, chronological, before, during, after, causal chain of events, context; plates, pressures, interior, upward, results, fault, energy, seismic waves, radiate Grammar Topics you need to review 8 parts of speech types of sentences phrases clauses prepositional phrases Correcting commonly misused words. |
