everett_PD

Everett PD

Lisa DiSalvatore

Wednesday May 8 (3-4pm) Lafayette School Library

=//**Agenda: **//= > @https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TAH2013post
 * ==Give teachers a copy of the lesson handouts with common core ideas ==
 * ==**Introduce myself and explain my participation in Becoming America and the purpose of the workshop; **==
 * ==Discuss importance of using primary sources in the classroom and the new focus of using warehouse of lessons to focus on ways to help teachers teach Common Core topics. ==
 * ==Show and tell teachers how they can search for lessons they might use to help them teach common core topics. ==
 * ==Using a hands on computer approach, walk teachers through several examples I have predetermined as common core lessons (example for ELA, Math, science) ==
 * ==Have teachers search and explore lessons for themselves. ==
 * ==Professional Development Post-survey - ==


 * //__Lesson:__//**
 * Demonstrate how these lessons might be helpful to teachers and how they might locate lessons that could cover core topics they want to teach example: " find all ELA lessons that help students practice inference skills or compare/contrast" or "math lessons that could be used to help teach basic statistics". **
 * Walk through the various years lessons below and show the Webquest links and how each might be connected to common core curriculum:**
 * ELA MATH SCIENCE**

__**Exploring:**__ Ask teachers to think about a common core area they might like to work on. Ask them find three activities or primary sources ( using the remaining year 2 and year 3 unit lessons below) what things do they see that they might be able to bring back to their classrooms? Ask teachers to report back on what they found and how they might be used in their classrooms.


 * Year 1 Unit : Who are the Know-Nothings? Grades 8-12 **
 * Lessons **

** 1. Read, Think, Link (Everett) ** ** Core area : Math/ Data driven lesson  ** ** Could use for statistics such as Avg. Mean Median etc. **

** 2. Get to Know the Know-Nothings: (Malden) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Point of View, Main Idea Key Details **

** 1. The Rise of the Immigrant Industrialist ( Malden) ** ** Core area: Science/ Focus on Inventions, Testing and the way things work ie. waterwheels **
 * Year 1 Unit : The Power of the Looms Grades 7-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. The Immigrant Journey (Braintree) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Poetry, letters and Diaries **

** 3. Get to Know Harriet Farley (Malden) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Read and Respond **

** 1. The Ursuline Convent Fire (Medford) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Compare and Contrast; debating issues, use of venn diagrams and organizers. **
 * Year 1 Unit: Religious Conflict in Antebellum Boston Grades 7-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. Broad Street Riot (Medford) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Cause and Effect; ** ** Math/Science Focus on Percentages, Demographics, population **

** 3. The Price of Freedom (Everett) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Debate, Speaking and Listening, use of Graphic organizers **
 * Year 1 Unit: Native Americans, Read! Grades 7-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 1. Taking a Stand (Braintree) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Issues, Bias and propaganda, speaking and listening; Science/ Focus on city conditions, design, engineering **

** 2. Puritan Tears for Fears (Braintree) ** ** Core area: Math/Science Focus on Predictions, data, charts and graphs, changes over time **

** 3. Snapshot of Native’s Treatment (Braintree) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on justification, arguments, support, evidence ** ** Math/ Science Focus on data, charts, changes over time **

** 4. Fighting Your Way (Braintree) ** ** Core area: PAGE NOT FOUND  **


 * Year 1 Unit: Navigating the New World Grades 9-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 1. Letters Home (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Letters, journals, perspective, view point; pros and cons ** ** Science/ Focus on technology, Materials **

** 2. This was Chelsea (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: Math/ Science Focus on analysis, predictions, Data, comparisons, numbers and changes over time, materials, observations **

** 3. Tempers and Temperance (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: ELA/ focus on essay, analysis, perspective and point of view **

** 4. I Know Nothing: Politics (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on persuasion, viewpoint, analysis, purpose, intent **


 * Year 1 Unit: Go West, Young Man! Grades 7-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 1. Making an educated decision (Everett) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on journals, poems, speaking, writing and listening, role playing; ** ** Math/Science focus on demographics, statistics, number changes over time, charts **

** 2. Birds Eye View Maps (Medford) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on point of view, inference, audience, summary, similarities, differences, ** ** Math/Science and technology focus on analysis, accuracy, observation **

** 3. And the Cruel Reason why I left old Skibbereen (Medford) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on theme, analysis, main idea, similarities, differences, poetry, lyric **


 * Year 2 The Life of a Boston Immigrant - The Early 1900s Grade 5-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 1. Denison House, a settlement house (Everett) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Reading, Writing, note taking skills, Theme, summarizing, ** ** Core: Science/Technology Focus on Analysis and Observation, Maps **

** 2. Italian Immigrant, George Scigliano, Progressive Leader (Malden) ** ** Core area; Math/ Focus on Percentages, statistics ** ** ELA/ Focus on Reading and Writing, analysis, summarizing, presentation skills **

** 3. Italian Experiences in North End (Medford) ** ** Core area: Math/Science Focus on Statistics, maps ** ** Core area: ELA/Focus on similarities and differences. note taking presentation skills **

** 4. Changing face of the North End (Medford) ** ** Core area: Math/Science Focus on patterns, data, ranking, grouping, maps, inquiry, analysis **

** 1. Should I stay or should I go? (Braintree) ** ** Core area: ELA -Focus on idea organization, Graphic Organizers KWL Charts **
 * Year 2: Going to America.. The Promised Land Grade 3 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. Never Look Back (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Reading and Writing, Compare /contrast, conclusions, making connections **

** 3. But in America, We can Go to School (Chelsea) ** ** Core area: ELA/ Focus on Adjectives and use of descriptions, compare/contrast **

** 4. Free to Be Me (Chelsea) ** ** Core Area: ELA/ Focus on Inference, image inquiry, compare /contrast, making observations **

** 1. Workers ( ** ** Core area: **
 * Year 2: Pemberton Mills Grade **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. Bosses ( ** ** Core area; **

** 1. Life in a New World (Medford) ** ** Core area; **
 * Year 2: Immigrant Experiences The Struggle to Become American Grade 8-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. A Memoir-able Experience (Medford) ** ** Core area; **

** 3. Sorry we’re closed - but only to you (Medford) ** ** Core area; **

** 4. If these walls could Talk... ** ** Core area; **

** 1. Settled vs. Unsettled (Everett) ** ** Core area; **
 * Year 2: Labor Unions and Immigrants Grades 7-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. “Because I was unable to make a living “ (Everett) ** ** Core area; **

** 3. “We want bread and roses, too” (Medford) ** ** Core area; **

** 1. We Welcome Everyone ( ** ** Core area; **
 * Year 2: Basic Democratic Principles Grades **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. The Chinese Experience ** ** Core area; **

** 3. The Man Farthest Down **

** 1. So, You Want to Be come an American Citizen? (Everett) ** ** Core area; **
 * Year 2: Immigrant to Citizen Graded 5-12 **
 * __Lessons:__ **

** 2. Considering Citizenship (Everett) ** ** Core area; **

** 3. Fighting to Fit in (Braintree) ** ** Core area; **

** 4. Immigrants and Citizenship (Braintree) ** __ Core area; __


 * HERE'S THE LINK TO ALL COMPLETED UNITS: **