Grade 4, Module 2A, Unit 2
CASE STUDY: CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON COLONIAL AMERICANS
In the second unit, students further develop their ability to comprehend informational text by hearing and reading a variety of nonfiction sources about roles people played in a colonial settlement (e.g., blacksmith, wheelwright, printer, and cooper) and how necessary their interdependence was for survival. To build students’ background knowledge, the class will work together to study the wheelwright, a colonial trade. They will then work in research Expert Groups as they become experts in one specific colonial trade. Students will select from: shoemaker, cooper, blacksmith, builder/carpenter, or printer.
Students will study a variety of informational texts and also will learn the importance of citing sources by keeping a list of the key sources they used during their research. With an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational text, and basic research (note-taking, pulling together information from a variety of texts, and sorting information into research categories), students synthesize information from multiple sources. This research will serve as the foundation for their culminating performance task (in Unit 3).
Students will study a variety of informational texts and also will learn the importance of citing sources by keeping a list of the key sources they used during their research. With an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational text, and basic research (note-taking, pulling together information from a variety of texts, and sorting information into research categories), students synthesize information from multiple sources. This research will serve as the foundation for their culminating performance task (in Unit 3).
Module 2A, Unit 2 Lessons can be downloaded individually or as one document here from EngageNY.