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Unit 1:
Personal Narrative |
Intro to Unit 4 |
Students will identify sensory details in a text. |
MxA Lesson:
Extreme Weather in New Hampshire |
Do It! Activity: Crazy Storm Stories |
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Lesosn 4:
Sensory Details |
Students will identify sensory details in a text. Students will write a paragraph using sensory details. |
MxA Lesson:
Celia Thaxter's Journal |
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Unit 3:
Poetry |
Lesson 1:
"Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" |
Students will identify contextual evidence and determine the implicit and explicit meanings. |
MxA Lesson:
Prize-Winning New Hampshire Poets |
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Lesson 7:
"I Hear America Singing" |
Students will identify how Whitman characterizes America and make inferences about what Whitman most values about the nation. |
MxA Lesson:
"Ox-Cart Man" |
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Lesson 10:
"Words as Free Confetti" |
Students will identify and create examples of alliteration. |
MxA Lesson:
Two Poets, One Season |
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Lesson 11:
"Fog" |
Students identify and extend metaphor (i.e., personification) and explain its various details. |
MxA Lesson:
"A Brook in the City" |
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Unit 4:
Eureka! |
Lesson 2:
Those Fascinating Judges |
Students will complete close reads of several inventor biographies and will be able to summarize, refer to details, and draw inferences from these texts. |
MxA Lesson:
Video Games |
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Lesson 3:
Lovin' the Lightbulb |
Students will read complex informational texts about major inventions and discuss their development and impact. |
Lesson 11.1:
Water Power
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 11: Big Factories and New Industries
Primary Source Set:
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company |
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Lesson 4:
Speaking with Style |
Students will describe the chronology, causes, and effects of inventions. |
Lesson 11.1:
Water Power (cont.)
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
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Lesson 5:
Invention Breeds Invention |
Students will analyze simple machines. |
Lesson 11.1:
Water Power (cont.)
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
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Lesson 8:
Why We Invent |
Using examples from history and their own experiences, students will write an opinion piece on the usefulness of failure in the inventing process. |
MxA Lesson:
Dean Kaman and DEKA |
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Unit 5:
Geology
Check out Moose Unit 1: Geography for related resources |
Lesson 8:
Three Types of Rock and the Rock Cycle
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Lesson 9: Rocks and the Rock Cycle |
Students will identify rocks as solids made of minerals, describe the formation and characteristics of three types, and explain how the rock cycle causes long-term changes.
Students apply knowledge of rock types to New Hampshire rocks, specifically granite. |
MxA Lesson:
All About Granite |
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Lesson 11:
Weathering and Erosion, Part 2 |
Students will describe processes of weathering and erosion and identify geologic features that provide evidence of these forces. |
Lesson 1.3:
New Hampshire's Land
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 1: New Hampshire Geography |
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Lesson 12:
Mountains |
Students will describe how mountains are formed, identify different types of mountains, and locate major mountain ranges on a map.
Students will plan for writing a descriptive paragraph about a rock or other item in the rock cycle. |
MxA Lesson:
New Hampshire Mountains |
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Unit 7:
The American Revolution
Check out Moose Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution for related resources |
Lesson 1:
The French and Indian War Brings Change |
Students will justify colonists' growing discontent and anger toward Great Britain by referring to details and examples in lesson text. |
MxA Lesson:
Moving Toward Independence
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Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution
Video: Mason Explains: The Causes of the American Revolution |
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Lesson 2:
Boycotts and Protests |
Students will explain how to use cause and effect to describe events that led to the American Revolution. |
Lesson 5.2:
Revolutionary Taxes
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution |
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Lesson 3:
Voices of Discontent |
Using close reading strategies, students will deepen their understanding of the colonists' growing discontent and anger toward Great Britain by studying vocabulary and idioms contained in the lesson text. |
Lesson 5.1:
Why Did We Have a Revolution?
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Lesson 4:
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death |
Students will use the lesson text and additional sources to understand how the Intolerable Acts imposed on Massachusetts by the British precipitated the American Revolution.
Students will use cause-and-effect text structure and paragraph writing skills to describe what gave rise to the French and Indian War. |
MxA Lesson:
Pine Tree Riot and Boston Tea Party |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution |
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Lesson 6:
Declaring Independence |
Students will use evidence from the lesson text to explain the process by which the colonists declared independence from Great Britain and the reasons they presented to justify their decision. |
Lesson 5.3:
Who Declared Independence
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution
Do It! Activity: The Thirteen Colonies |
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Lesson 7:
A Final Separation |
Through close reading of the lesson text, students will evaluate the political choices available to colonial leaders during the tumultuous war with Great Britain. |
Lesson 5.4:
Divided New Hampshire
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Educator Background Knowledge:
Unit 5: New Hampshire and the American Revolution |
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Lesson 8:
The Continental Army's Plight |
Understand the strategic and physical challenges colonial soldiers faced as local militias combined to form the Continental Army. |
MxA Lesson:
John Stark and George Washington |
Primary Source Set:
John Stark |
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Lesson 11:
Five Years and 700 Miles |
Understand the scope of the Revolutionary War, the timeframe and physical area, and the various nations involved. |
MxA Lesson:
New Hampshire Fights |
Video: Mason Explains: Fighting the American Revolution |
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Lesson 12:
A Country of Idealists |
Students make inferences from lesson text to evaluate the acts of lesser-known individuals involved in the American Revolution. |
Lesson 5.5:
Who Took Part in the American Revolution?
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
Do It! Activity: Write a Letter to a Soldier
Do It! Activity: Events of the American Revolution |
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Lesson 16:
An Allegory of Independence |
Students will compare and contrast Rip Van Winkle's outlook before the Revolutionary War (before he fell asleep) and beyond the Revolutionary War (after he woke from his 20-year slumber).
Students will develop and strengthen cause-and-effect essays as needed by planning, revising, and editing. |
Lesson 5.6:
Summative Project: Revolutionary News
Educator Guide / Worksheets and Resources |
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