Grade 6, Unit 1, Mr McGovern's Social Science Class by Timothy McGovern

Overview

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Scholars are learning about 6 teenagers stranded on a desert island in the South Pacific: How they got there, what they did when they were there, and what happened to them.

Skills and standards

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Scholars are learning to explain events using logic, details and examples, and the order in which things happened.

Scholars are also learning to explain how people meet challenges. They will describe what needs the boys were trying to meet and what they did in order to meet those needs.

(If you are curious, the social science standards are SS.IS.6.6-8.MdC and SS.IS.8.6-8.LC and MDC)

Summative Assessment: Choice Board

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For the final assessment on the unit, scholars will have several choices of how to show their learning.

How to "do vocabulary" in Mr. McG's class

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"Research, Rephrase, and Represent"

Unit 1 vocabulary list

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Only five terms in this mini-unit:

Identity

Natural Resources

Physical Needs

Social Needs

Emotional Needs

Formative: Notebook, Quick-Writes, and Exit tickets

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Notebooks, Quick-Writes (the work students do right when they arrive in the room), and Exit Tickets are graded for COMPLETION WITH FIDELITY (following directions and doing their best work).

Formative: Graphic Organizer

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Students will take notes from their reading and other learning activities in order to prepare for their summative assessment.

2-part grade (completion and correctness); students can re-submit as many times as they need to for a satisfactory grade.

Completed on paper, but posted in Google Classroom in case students lose their copy or need to refer to it.

Grading of vocabulary

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Because this is a multi-day assignment completed on scholars' own schedule, it is graded as Homework.

A correct research, rephrase, or represent is worth 7 points for each word.

Each correct additional research, rephrase, or represent is worth an additional 1.5 points per word.

Interview with Mano, one of the shipwrecked boys

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This is an interview with Mano done when he was an old man.

This is a written version of that interview, with lots of pictures: https://www.vice.com/en/article/shipwrecked-on-uninhabited-desert-island/

Here is a shorter version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16DMSLYH1jX9wEIsyM8LoOvEdt67706DKoVqk_cQOmSs/edit?usp=sharing

Real-life castaways: reading

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Summary of the boys' story.

"The Castaways" video (1966)

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Article by Rutger Bregman

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The life of Peter Warner, the man who rescued the castaways

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