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This is lesson #1 in the text unit series for Vote by Eileen Christelow. Students will be discussing and viewing the powerpoint on the 11 vocabulary words in the text that may be unknown. In addition, students will rotate to centers based on the vocabulary words to complete an activtity meant to strengthen their understanding of the words from the text. These responses will be kept until the end of the unit when they can go back and alter their responses based on previous lessons and the close read. Students will record an exit ticket of what they “think” the author’s purpose will be in the book, Vote.
This unit will explain voting in the United States. Unit lessons include duties of responsible citizens for voting, the voting process, responsibilities of candidates, and voting outcomes. Teacher will utilize a read aloud over several lessons incorporating text structure, text features, figurative language, and the use of multimedia in presentations. Teachers will facilitate research to help students create a presentation.
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