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Lesson 11: Illinois History 1800's Dual Timeline
Students identify and research key event in the history of Illinois during the 1800's and create a dramatic skit or oral report based on the event.
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ILLINOIS PICTURE TIMELINE GAME
Fourth graders explore Illinois state history by finding six historical photos and then putting them in sequential order.
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Lesson 22: The Great Chicago Fire Survivors
Students, in groups, create a historical fiction story of a Great Chicago Fire survivor by writing a survival narrative.
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Branches of Government
Students participate in a sorting activity to research and categorize the three branches of government. They listen to teacher read aloud and write questions for a game based activity
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A Growing Vocabulary
Young scholars discover the meaning of the word genealogy as it appears in the context of reading. They continue finding new vocabulary words and entering them in their personal dictionaries.
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The Great Chicago Fire Survivors
Young scholars research the Great Chicago Fire and create a reader's theater presentation that describes the experiences of survivors.
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The Great Chicago Fire Survivors
Students compare and contrast the experiences of two survivors of the Great Fire of Chicago using a Venn Diagram.
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Rights and Responsibilities
Students focus on the rights and responsibilities of being an American citizen as they develop a T-chart and discuss the topic.
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Reading Power through Visualizations
Students practice visualizing images as they read in this lesson plan. Students create an oral collage with their visualizations. Students are then given three separate scenarios to visualize, and are assessed on their description of...
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Lesson 8: Early History of Illinois/Dual Timeline
Young scholars, in groups, research and pretend as if they are interviewing a Mississippian child. They come up with three questions to ask to research their culture.
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Independent Novel Project
Young scholars complete activities for an independent novel project. In this novel project worksheet, students follow the 13 steps to analyze and complete a comprehensive project about a novel they've read.
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ILLINOIS HISTORY HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET
Fourth graders use the internet to search for pictures about historical events and then use those pictures for a timeline game
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Fourth graders explore the influence of Abraham Lincoln on events of the 1800's and crate a group life-size poster.
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Chicago's Amazing Growth
Students, in groups, collaboratively explore the rapid growth of Chicago (from 350 to 300,000 in less than 40 years), and how the city changed to accommodate such rapid growth.
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The Great Chicago Fire: The O'Leary Hearing
Young scholars dramatized the O'Leary hearing regarding the Chicago fire using the transcript from the original hearings as a script.
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Making Connections
Fifth graders take part in activities that appeal to many learning styles (kinesthetic, verbal, etc...) to help them create a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast state and national government.
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In The Eye Of The Beholder
Students, in groups, research Rembrandt's life and works. They find critiques of his work, as well. Each group reports their findings back to the rest of the class. Finally, they create abstract drawings and write interpretations about...
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The Individual and His Role in Society
Tenth graders discover how various writers approach the themes of : alienation and solitude, living life "deliberately" and "phonies." Through reading, journaling, class discussion, and writing assignments they realize the power of the...
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Ode to the Ordinary
Ninth graders identify an ordinary object and write an ode for the subject. In this poetry writing lesson, 9th graders select an ordinary object and define its uses. Students then write an ode for the poem.
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Approaching the Iraq War
Students identify the justifications for the war in Iraq as seen from teh American and Middle Eastern perspectives. They research personal, primary and secondary sources to create a constructed poster board perspective. The poster board...