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Writing Letters with Grasshopper Summer by Ann Turner
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Theme: |
Civil War
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Grades: |
3 - 5
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts
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Duration: |
45 minute class session
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Standards
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New York State Learning Standards
- Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written and electronic sources.
- Speaking and writing for literary response involves presenting interpretations, analyses, and reactions to the content and language of a text. Speaking and writing for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Read pages 48–66 in Grasshopper Summer
- Assume the role of one of the characters (Sam, William, Mother or Father) and write to one of the characters in Kansas (Grandma, Grandpa, Harold)
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