Inca Achievements: Medicine & Agriculture

October 30, 2024

Correlation to State Content Standard:

 7.7.5: Describe the Meso-American achievements in astronomy and mathematics, including the development of the calendar and the Meso-American knowledge of seasonal changes to the civilizations’ agricultural systems. 

ELD Standard:

P1: A1, A2, A3, C10, C12

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

 Today I will learn about the Inca achievements by:

1. Understanding the advancements in medicine.

2. Explaining their agriculture techniques.

Common Core Literacy Standard         

  RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from   prior knowledge or opinions.

RH 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.

            RH7: Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts 

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

WHST 6: Use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiency.

WHST 8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources (primary and secondary sources).

WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.)

       SDAIE: TPS/EQ/Chunked Reading: Starter:  Students will read a chunked passage from the History Channel "This Day in History" and answer the essential question by annotating the evidence in the passage.  If no evidence is there to answer the passage, students will answer "Not enought information."

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

            SDAIE: Close Read/Model/Chunked reading/Annotate/Video Clip/Sentence stems: Inca Medicine:  Teacher will close read a chunk passage from the book explaining the advancements of Incan medicine.  Teacher will explain the claim and after the reading students will annotate evidence to support the claim, teacher will reveal the answer, and students will then write down the evidence in order of importance.  Teacher will then show students how to prep their sentence stems by using their question as part of their answers.

Guided Practice (5 min.)

        SDAIE: TPS: Inca Medicine VBQ:  Teacher will go over the VBQ with the students describing how the trephination was conducted and how many patients survived. In between the completion of each section teacher will check for completion and answers to be correct then go over the answers and provide explanations and clarificaations. 

Independent Practice (25 min.)

   SDAIE:Chunked Reading/Annotate/Speech to Text/VBQ/Sentence Stems: Inca Advancements:  Students will now be on their own to complete the advancements in agriculture, engineering, and with quipus.  Students will read a chunked passage, annotate the evidence that will support the claim, share their answers with their group members, and then write the evidence in order from strongest to weakest evidence.  

Homework.

            EdPuzzle due by Friday at 5 p.m.

Closure (3 min.)

1.     Clean up.

2.     Dismiss Class.

Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students

EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.

RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.

GATE:  Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

       Students will be able to:

1.    Understand the Aztec social hierarchy.

2.   Understand the roles played by each member in the Aztec society.

Anticipatory Set (5 min.)

           Starter: Quiz: Students will take a Quiz based on their starters from last week.  Weekly starter quiz teaches students the skill of studying and taking test.

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

           SDAIE: Direct Teach/Close Read: Aztec Class Structure:  Teacher will close read the section dealing with the introduction and the ruler.  Teacher will clarify and discuss how the Aztec class structure is different from that of the Maya.  Will explain the directions for the assignment.  Teacher will go over the answers to the order and explanation of the Aztec Rise to Power.  Teacher already checked assignment for completion

Guided Practice (5 min.)

        SDAIE: TPS : Aztec Class Structure:  Teacher will and students will gather the information from the reading and place the responsibility and privileges of the ruler.  Will go over the Prior Knowledge question.  

Independent Practice (15 min.)        

SDAIE: Jigsaw/Group: Aztec Class Structure:  Students will be given one of the four remaining class structures.  They will read their section and underline the class responsibility and privilege.  Once they are done with the reading and annotating they will write their answers on the Graphic Organizer.

Homework.

         EdPuzzle: by Friday at 5:00 pm.

Closure (5 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Exit Question

3. Dismiss Class.