Cristiane Divina Telles
Patricia Martins Lopes
TULP
Unit Objective:
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The main goal of this Unit is to have students compare and contrast
Urban and Rural schools reflecting the way of lives each community has.
Subunit 1. Rural communities
SWBAT…
Content Objectives:
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Recognize how life is in Rural communities
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Understand how the schools are in the countryside
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Know about work people have in the countryside
Language Objectives:
Introducing vocabulary
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Check what students already know through brainstorm or KWL
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Express understanding in what does one have in a schoolhouse, what are
the jobs in country side and also talk about the traditions in gardening and
harvesting.
Learning Strategy Objective:
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Students will use scaffolded outlines to sort information about the
schoolhouse objects, animals, jobs in rural communities.
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Read the book "Country schoolhouse" by Lynne Barash, to get
more information and familiarity about rural life and country school, going
picture walking.
Subunit 2. Urban communities
SWBAT
Content Objectives
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Recognize what city schools are like
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Identify and describe the places and objects from city schools
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Name some professions that people have in cities.
Language Objects
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Write sentences using the objects and jobs we can find in schools
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Show pictures on slides: school objects, schools and jobs
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Scaffolding with profession included.
Learning Strategy Objective
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Allow students to decide which life style they prefer. Have the students
complete a writing assignment justifying why they prefer country or city life
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Students will create a text about the profession each one like to have.
Subunit 3. Rural communities x Urban communities
SWBAT
Content Objectives
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Compare and contrast the life in the city and in the country, the job,
the schools, the traditions.
Language Objects
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SW writes on cards contrasting what we can find in schools, what are the
jobs and tradition from which community. R C (rural communities) x U C (urban
communities) - Schools, jobs and tradition.
Learning Strategy Objective
Venn diagram
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Allow students to decide which life style they prefer. Have the students
complete a writing assignment justifying why they prefer country or city life
