Early+Pioneer+Companies

//(This lesson will most likely take two days in a regular 48 minute class.)//
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**Vocabulary**:

 * ====Pioneer ====
 * ====Manifest Destiny ====

**Activities**:
Part 1: **__Reciprocal Questioning__** - Students are going to be reading pages 84-85 and 88-89 in the textbook for this activity.
 * Reciprocal Questioning -
 * Students are matched up with a partner. One person reads out loud while the other person follows along in their own textbook. They read a paragraph and then stop. The person who was not reading asks the person who read questions.
 *  The question must be text-based.
 *  Must ask Open Ended questions (This is a skill that must be developed.)
 *  No Trivia – Define what is trivial and what’s considered trivia.
 * Reread – show the students that if they do not know, they can go back and re-read

Example: “During the 1840s, American interest in California and the Pacific Northwest grew. The question was how to make the long trip in the fastest and safest way.” Bad Question: “Why did the trip take so long?” It does not tell us in what we just read. Good Question: “What were Americans becoming interested in during the 1840s?” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Good Question: “What were the two things Americans were trying to figure out about their journey west?”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the first paragraph of page 88 together and practice with the class. Then read the second paragraph together and practice together one last time.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let the students go ahead with the assignment from here. They must stop every paragraph.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once they are done, ask them to identify how the author presented the information. (sequentially, comparatively, causally.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part 2:
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stop and Write __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Donner-Reed Party (I attached the template at the bottom under //Teacher Resources.)//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the first paragraph together and do a stop and write together on the overhead. (You'll need to create an overhead from the document I attached.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Stop and Write asks students what they already knew, three things they learned and one things they are still wondering about.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give the students the Stop and Write worksheet. They will do a total of 4 stop and writes. Stop after every 2 paragraphs and write. The last stop and write will include 3 paragraphs, not 2.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once they are done, have the students share one of their Stop and Writes with a different partner.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Donner-Reed Party: Depending on time, show the video t(link below). Begin at chapter 5. I would stop it after that but you can watch Chapter 6 if you want. It talks about crossing the west desert. [|__http://video.pbs.org/video/1401950336/__]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Assessmen**t:
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Questioning during Reciprocal Questioning
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stop and Write
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Class discussion at the end of class

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Teacher Resources**:

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Textbook
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Copies of Stop and Write Worksheet
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overhead projector
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Transparency of Stop and Write
 * Computer hooked up to AV (audio/visual) wall unit to show video

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Student Resources**:

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Textbook
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stop and Write Worksheet