Instructional Goal and
​ Learning Objectives

  • Students will identify main points while reading a historical short story.
  • Students will use complete a flow map to organize the order of events from the story.

Instructional Approach

Students will understand the benefits of the use of flow maps while reading historical reading piece. Flow maps help students obtain and organize the order of sequence of the events that took place. This graphic organizer allows them to pull out the important events and elaborate what took place. Students will read the historical reading in pairs and discuss the important events together before formulating their flow map. The final goal will train the students on how they can take notes and organize the order of events that took place from the short story on the European Exploration of North America.

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Module Lesson Plan Outline

Module Lesson Plan Outline
  1. Review of the use of flow maps
    1. Teacher will introduce flow maps to the students and the benefits of implementing the graphic organizer with their note taking while reading a short story on the European Exploration of North America.
  2. Graphic organizer review
    1. Teacher will have the students to create a flow map detailing their daily order of events.
  3. Student completion of one graphic organizer
    1. Students will read the short story in paired reading.
    2. After reading the story, the students will discuss what they believed were the important events in the story and create a flow map organizing the order of each event that happened.
  4. Assessment
    1. The students will create a foldable on the historical piece they read while using their flow map for their resource.

Instructional Activities

Day One
Teacher will introduce flow maps to the students and the benefits of implementing the graphic organizer with their note taking while reading a short story.
Teacher will have the students to create a flow map detailing their daily order of events as a practice activity.
Day Two
Students will read about the European Exploration in North America in pairs.  Teacher will demonstrate how to create a flow map using Piktochart.
After reading the story, the students will discuss what they believed were the important events in the story and use Piktochart to create a flow map organizing the order of each events.

Day Three
The students will create a foldable on the historical piece they read while using their flow map for their resource.

Graphic Organizer Choices
Assessment:
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