Syllabus/Geography

Correlation to State Content Standards

Understanding Geography.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Understand and Explain the formation of the continents through Pangea.

2. Identify the 7 continents and oceans in the world.

3. Review the class syllabus.

Literacy Standard

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

RH 7:Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Anticipatory Set (3 min.)

Daily Journal: Name the 7 continents.

Direct Instruction (15 min.) I Do…

SDAIE: Close Read: Course Syllabus: Teacher will cloze read the course syllabus with the class.

SDAIE: Close Read: Pangea: Teacher will lead class in a class read of the Pangea. As teacher stops the class will read the word left off by the teacher in a voice level of 2.

Guided Practice (10 min.) We Do…

SDAIE: Annotate/Talk to Text: Pangea: Teacher will lead students on how to annotate the reading as the teacher models talk to text.

Independent Practice (10 min.) You Do…

SDAIE: Cornell Notes: Pangea: Students will transfer their annotations into Cornell Notes.

SDAIE: QuickWrite: Students will write a brief summary explaining how Pangea shifted to the world we have today. They will have to include 4 terms from the key words in their explanation.

Homework.

Parent Syllabus signature slip.

Closure (2 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.

Dialectical Journal: left side is a quote, pic, map, text, fact, etc right side; students interact with it using a question, reaction, interpretation, prediction.