Curriculum+Modification+Project+3

Students will be able to place the year that the Mayflower sailed towards Massachusetts and the year of the first Thanksgiving on a timeline. - Skill Students will know key terms and ideas from the years 1620-1630. – Knowledge
 * Lesson Title**: The First Thanksgiving
 * Grade Level:** 5th
 * Time Needed for Lesson:** 30 minutes
 * Materials Needed:** Fact or Myth questions, social studies book
 * Objective:** Students will be able to communicate why the Pilgrims left England and came to North America. - Reasoning
 * Introduction:** Peek the students interest by doing Fact or Myth. There are 5 questions and then students will vote by a show of hands as to whether the statement is true or false. Timeline – I will review the timeline with the students and then have them add the next dates we will be talking about which will be 1620 (when the Mayflower took off) and 1621 (the 1st Thanksgiving).
 * Lesson Development:**

-**Direct Instruction:** The students will open their books to page 136 and I will first go over the oppression that the Separatists felt. I will ask the students to think to themselves if there has ever been a time in their lives that they didn’t agree with what was going on, or didn’t want to take part so they separated themselves and started a new group. Then students will look at the pictures in the book that relate to what I am talking to them about. I will talk them through what happened when the Pilgrims came here and how the first Thanksgiving came to be.


 * - Sample Questions for Discussion:** When we get to Mayflower Compact I will have the students write 3 rules that they would have in their compact.


 * -Activity:** First the students will think of a time that they separated from the group. Then they will write their own compacts with rules for their colony. Last, they will work on a crossword puzzle that has all the terms they should have learned during the lesson.
 * Summary and Assessment:** The lesson will be summed up by doing the crossword puzzle. This will also be a good way to assess whether or not the students understand the terms I have taught them.
 * Subjects for Integration:** Math (timeline), Writing (writing the compact)

The first thing in the lesson would be to ask 5 true or false questions to the class about the first thanksgiving. For students that were hearing impaired, they would have the five questions printed out for them on their desk so they could raise their hand with the class to answer. Students will also be filling out a timeline on the board. Students that are visually impaired would be able to pick up a copy of the time line to follow along on their desk if they can’t see the board. They would also get a copy of the crossword puzzle that is much larger font to ensure that they could see the puzzle. For an autistic student that had trouble communicating their answer on the true and false questions would have two paddles. One would say true and have a smiley face on it and one would say false and have a sad face on it. They could raise the paddle to give their answer. That way they wouldn’t have to explain anything and wouldn’t have to worry that they were raising their hand with the wrong group.
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