LESSON FOUR: Identify Cause and Effect, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast
GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
R3C The learner will be able to use details from the text to identify simple cause and effect, draw conclusions, and to compare and contrast texts.
LESSON MATERIALS
§ Sources of literature
§ Supplies
o Basic Venn diagram
o Journal books
§ Handouts provided
o Venn diagram
§ Words to Know
o compare
o contrast
o cause and effect
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Pick up journals and check that students made a Venn Diagram showing comparing and contrasting, with at least two examples.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Read poem or story about a teacher in a one-room school house in the 1800’s. Review vocabulary of your time period. Review the details of each of the three categories of your time period.
2. Make a Venn diagram on the chalkboard to compare and contrast school today and in the past. Be sure to review compare and contrast from a previous lesson. Remember that compare is to tell how things are alike and contrast is to tell how things are different.
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Questions for Students |
How would you describe a school 100 years ago? How would you compare/contrast your school to the past? What questions would you ask in an interview with a child of past/future? |
3. Students use information from the outline in their journal to make their own Venn diagram comparing their own time period and the present for each category. For each key word chosen, students create a Venn diagram for a total of three.
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Suggestion |
Lead students to understand how cause and effect and compare and contrast help see that their study of the past can help the president make decisions for the present or the future. Use internet as a possible resource or Laura Ingalls Wilder information. |