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Correlation to State Content Standards
7.7.1: Study the locations, landforms, and climates of Mexico, Central America, and South America and their effects on Mayan, Aztec, and Incan society
Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)
Students will be able to:
Understand the physical features that make up the MesoAmerican Civilization.
Identify the location of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations.
Understand the key characteristics of a civilization.
Common Core Literacy Standard
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.
WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
WHST 9: Draw evidence from information texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
Anticipatory Set (3 min.)
Starter: Quiz: Students will take quiz on the starters from last week.
Direct Instruction (10 min.)
SDAIE: Direct Teach: Characteristics of Civilization: Teacher will teach the 5 key characteristics of a civilization.
Guided Practice (5 min.)
SDAIE: TPS/Annotating/Talk to Text: Geo Challenge Mesoamerica: Teacher will go over the answers to the geography challenge with the students.
Independent Practice (10 min.)
SDAIE: Book to Paper: Geography Challenge MesoAmerica: Students will use the textbook to identify the location of the three MesoAmerican society's on their map and they will answer a series of questions that will refer to them analyzing the map on the textbooks.
Homework.
EdPuzzle: Maya Corn
Closure (2 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.
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