Social+Studies

**//Social Studies//** **//(adaptable)//**
 * -Ray-**

**//Strategy//: Read-Draw-Talk-Revise**

Use this strategy when you want students to visualize what they are reading to enhance comprehension.

// **Practice:** //

1. READ Students read a section of the textbook for a specified time.

2. DRAW On a piece of paper, each student makes a sketch illustrating the passage just read. They may use word labels to increase comprehension. Allow about 5minutes before calling time.

3. In A and B pairs, each partner takes one minute to explain his or her drawing.

4. Students may ask each other questions or make suggestions after each partner has spoken for one minute.

5. Next, students may return to the text to revise their drawings for details and accuracy.

6. These drawings can be used as a study aid prior to a test.

//**Assessment:**// analyze student’s drawing; have students explain drawing, ask questions to student at the end of the unit to elicit responses and have an understanding of their comprehension.

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 * Social Studies**


 * Role Playing: A prisoner at a Japanese Internment Camp - Rey Rosado**


 * The students will be able to experience what it might have been like for Japanese-Americans to be unwillingly placed in internment camps. The students will read a non fiction story based on a young girl's time at one of the camps. The students will also use a computer to examine images of these prisoners. Based on the knowledge acquired through the required reading and the digital photos, the students will assume the role of a Japanese-American and create their own memoir detailing daily life in the camp.**


 * Skills: Inferring, visualizing, and making personal connections**


 * Materials: Copy of the book, "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, computers with internet access, and Microsoft Word.**


 * Procedure: The students will view a brief documentary about Japanese Internment Camps. They will then begin reading, "A Farewell to Manzanar" over the next two weeks. Upon completion of the book, the students will be instructed to pretend that they are a prisoner at one of these camps, and will be instructed to create a memoir describing the conditions, and overall mood in this environment. They must include actual images of internment camps as part of their memoir.**


 * Assessment: Student will be provided with a self-assessment rubric which will help guide their writing. I will use the same rubric to formally assess their final written piece. Informal assessments will also include, observations and conferring with students to determine their understanding of the task and provide remediation where necessary.**


 * Marcus Franklin**


 * Social Studies**


 * Strategy- Students will be able to choose a side and debate their issues. The students will read the novel //"Hiroshima"// by John Hersey.**


 * Skills- Students will need to use their critical thinking skills in order to determine which side they will defend. One group will be supportive of the U.S. Atomic Bomb droppings on Japan and the other side would be against the bombings. Students will be able to visualize the bombings through slides and pictures which will be posted on their online blogs.**


 * Materials: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Online Blogs.**


 * Procedures: Of the course of 1 week students will read this book. Students will read 32 pages a night for homework over a period of 5 nights. For homework they will blog their thoughts and opinions based on the questions posted on each blog. During Days 6 and 7 students will debate their sides either against or for the bombings. Each side will be presented questions to use within their debates through the use of PowerPoint.**


 * Assessment: 2 Day debate and reflecting on what students learned within the book. A rubric will passed to each student which will show them how they will be graded during their debates. In addition, students will be graded on their online blogs based on questions from the book. Finally students will be graded on class participation when it comes to reflecting on what they learned.**


 * Overall: Students will need to use their critical thinking skills in order to visualize and explain the effects of the Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan. Students will be able to visualize the effects of the bombs based on the first hand accounts from those survivors who gave testimonies within the novel.They will be able to reflect their literacy skills while blogging online. Finally they will be able to combine their visual skills, critical thinking skills, and literacy skills be conducting a PowerPoint debate.**


 * References: Hersey, John __Hiroshima.__ New York: Random House, 1985.**