Untold Truths~

Sojourner
Truth lesson

Xzandria Beard

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Overview

– 1st grade History, “So Tall Within”

• SOLs
• K.2- The students will recognize that history describes events and people form other
times and places by
• A) Identifying examples of historical events, sotries and legends that describe the
development of the local community.
• B) Identifying people who helped establish and lead the local community over time.
• K. 3: The student will sequence events in the past and present, begin to recognize that
things change over time.
– Student will make connect with the past and relate it to the present and be able to
view the world in a different way.
Sequencing
Day 1
Writing Activity
Short poems” This activity
will assess the student’s
prior knowledge
Vocabulary Activity
“Fill in Jeopardy, Vocab Act
it Out, Tag Vocab”: These
vocabulary activities will
help the students retain the
information
Day 2
Comprehension Activity
Truth’s KWL” students will answer what
they already know about the subject and
create their own chart to see how well
they were paying attention.
Pre-Reading Activity
“What is True and Not True” a Predict
and What happened activity, will help
assess the student’s prior knowledge and
help them learn from the new information
that will be give momentarily.
Day 3
Assessment Activity
“GRASP” this activity will
help the students see what is
expected of them and what is
not, based on their team
work and behavior
Day 4
Communication Activity
“Discussion Web” This activity
will allow the students to debate
on an issue on rather they feel it is
true or false. This also give the
students practice and speaking out
and
Reflection Activity
“Truth’s Report Card” This
activity will show the students
prior knowledge and accuracy
based on after they have finished
reading the story
Interdisciplinary Connections
and Technology
– Social Studies: Literature reflects
on the history and culture of the
historical time and figures of the
past.
– I feel it is necessary to use
literature to give them something
they are familiar with such a
picture books or read aloud to
them. In order to expand their
knowledge on the subject.
– Literature is a gateway to different
time periods that they will explore
but also strengthen their
knowledge and understanding of
the past and the present
– Technology: Smartboard, Quizlet
allows the teacher to see the
student’s understanding and help
them retain what is important.
Differentiation: Gifted learners,
ESL, Special Ed

Follow along/ read Easy access to Keeps the students

Audiobooks Online YouTube
aloud quick video entertained

ABCya-provides
educational games
Kahoot- is a game-
and activities for
based learning
school-aged
platform, used as Khan Academy-
Offers more variety children. The Duolingo-To help
educational online tools that
and ideas to help games on the them learning a
technology in help educate
them learn website are different language
schools and other students
organized into
educational
grade levels from
institutions
pre-kindergarten to
fifth grade
 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVe Weatherford, Carole Boston, and Kadir Nelson. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People
to Freedom. Disney, Jump at the Sun, 2006.
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Woodson, Jacqueline, et al. The Other Side. Putnams, 2011.

Text Ellen Levine. Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, 2007.

Renee Watson. Harlem’s Little Black Bird, 2012

Gary D. Schmidt. So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom, 2018
Pre-Reading Activities

– In this activity, students will be assisted to read

books So Tall Within, The Other Side and Moses: When
Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Before
they read, the students will create their own KWL chart,
which is broken into three section into three sections on
a sheet of paper such as “know, want to know and
learned” This method will help the students understand
what they are reading while learning about a historical
event. The students will be able to make connections
with how these relate to today and the impact it still has.
–
Vocabulary Activities
2-3 vocab word examples: Discrimination, Segregation, Racism

– Activity 1:Tag Vocab

– 2. Students will begin class by engaging in a tag activity. Each student will wear a name tag with different words from the vocabulary list on their backs. In groups of four, one member of each
group will wear a tag while others try to define the words they can see on their peer’s chest. The students will be given at least 2 minutes to decide together as a group which answers they want to
go with.

– By relying only on their peers and prior knowledge, this will help the student work on their communication skills and collaboration ideas. Because they will be able to assess and analyze the
different views of their team. By hearing the different terms form their classmates they will each be given the choice of deciding which term they would want to answer.

– Activity 2-Fill in jeopardy

– 7. Activity Overview & Rationale:

– On the smartboard, students will play a game of jeopardy in groups of four. In the game the questions will all be fill in the blank questions, for a certain amount of points such as 100, 200, 300 and
400 points. For example, one for 400 points question would say that “Harriet Tubman was called her people’s Moses but “What was the also a __________ to guide the people to the underground
railroad and to freedom. The group who gets the most points will win a prize that they can take home and share with their parents.

– Activity 3-Vocab Act it out

– 11. Activity Overview & Rationale: Student will be giving a term off the vocab list in which the students will have the act out the term they are describing to their team and to the class. Which
every student gets it right will have a chance to go first after the next round. For example, if the students a student were to portray slavery the student would state “I am forced to serve people I do
not know, and their law restrict me from ever being free again” the students can even use props to express the scene they are trying to get their point across
 Comprehension
Activity
Predictions What
Happened – What is True and Not True
– During this activity, I will assess the student’s
1.
knowledge based on organization. The
2. students will have to determine which scene
or event happened first. Bases on the stories
3.
they have listened to, this activity will show if
4. they were pay attention but retained some of
the information. The students will be focus on
5. their memory and what they see happening
next within the storybook.
Reflection Activity

Characteristic Grade Comment

Brave

Strong-willed

Spiritual

Determined
Writing Activity

– Students will focus on their writing skills by writing poems of short stories. I will pair the students up
into groups of three, where they will be assigned an activity either five-line poems, Biopoem, Heuristic, and
Found poetry. This lesson will help the students writing ability and being able to collaborate with others. In
addition, it will help students to summaries their own knowledge and pose questions. In addition, it also gives
the students time to decompress and not be overwhelmed by assignment. By doing this assignment, students
will be able to take time for writing and get the students to focus their thoughts.

– Bio Poem

– Freedom

– Taken not given

– Fight, Run, Strike

– Never go down and claim the night

Communication

– Students will focus on the collaboration skills and be able to

communicate with their peers by writing in groups. To will
create their own poems based on the examples that I have show
them. The student will be given long sheet of paper so they can
also name it and narrow down what they wanted the subject to
be. In addition, it is also about learning from each other’s ideas
and debating on what they think is right or wrong about the
topic. It is important to understand the reason why someone
would choose that side compared to your own but also their own
points of views.
 Communication Activity
Agree Disagree

If, So why? If so why?

Do you feel that
Sojourner truth’s
story made
difference?
Performance Based
Assessment
– In this activity, students will be able to tell a story to their class and focus
on their creativity. The students will be given a lesson, an activity where
they will have to come up with their own ideas but also focus on the light
and dark of the story. They will be paired up in groups and will have to
work together by coming up with their idea and how the story will end or
begin. The activity they will be doing is becoming storytellers, students
will pick a famous African American female in history that we have discuss
in class. Their job is to create a short story of their own and post a digital
version of it online, where their parents would be the buyers. Using the
GRASP which focuses on the goal, role, audience, situation and the
product performance, which will give the me a change to test their
creativity, teamwork and writing skills.
 GRASP: Performance
Goal:
Assessment Activity
•Your task is to tell the class a story of their own version of famous African American
women in history. Either with a partner or by
themselves__________________________________________________

•Your goal is to show the lighter or darker sides of past and presents events in their
stories__________________________________________________

•The problem or challenge is deciding where they want to go or take us in their

stories______________________________________

•The obstacles to overcome

are how they want the stories to end and how long they want it to be____________________
___________________

Role:

•You are a storyteller_______________________________________________________

•You have been asked to create a Tall Tale on Florence Mills, Sojourner Truth, Harriet
Tubman, Phillis Wheatley in front of your
classmates___________________________________________

•Your job is to be creative but appropriate with your writing skills but also have fun with
it. However, make the audience feel more drawn to your work to the point where it’s either
brings them to tears or lifts them
up__________________________________________________

Audience:

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