Unit 5 Module P
Pioneering New Ideas and New Worlds
Late February to Mid March: 3rd Trimester
Unit 5 Module P
Pioneering New Ideas and New Worlds
Late February to Mid March: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that asking and answering questions helps clarify their comprehension of a text.
Writers understand that authors use reasons to support their opinions.
Learners understand how learning about a life story or a life cycle can reveal big ideas about historical or natural events.
How do readers ask and answer questions to better understand a text?
How do writers support their opinions with reasons and explanations?
Readers will ask and answer questions about details and information in a text.
Writers will compose an opinion paragraph that uses reasons to support their opinion.
Learners will explain how learning about a life story or a life cycle can reveal big ideas about historical or natural events.
Opinion Task: Write an Opinion Children will think about a lesson that we can learn from the historical events described in the texts they read, such as the importance of freedom, or pursuing new ideas. Children will choose one of the lessons and write their opinion about why they think the lesson is still important to follow in today’s world.
Standards Addressed
Please see standards addressed in Module 5A.
Performance-Based Assessment
Student Prompt:
Piensa en una lección que podemos aprender de los sucesos históricos que estan descritos en los textos que leíste, por ejemplo la importancia de la libertad o de perseguir nuevas ideas. Escribe una opinión en la cual relates por qué piensas que esa lección todavia es importante hoy en día.
Acùerdate de:
presentar la lección en la cual te concentrarás.
expresar tu opinión sobre por qué es importante
proporcionar razones que apoyan tu opinión
usar palabras de enlace que asocian las razones a la opinión.
proveer una conclusión.
Biliteracy Pathway Grade 2 Module P Assessments
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text:
Huir hacia la libertad
Detective:
Viaje a la Libertad
El viaje al Norte
De semilla a planta y a fruta
Supporting Texts: