Sharing Stories About Humanity
Grade
Grade 1
UNIT
9
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Humanity
Unit 9, Lesson 4, “Sharing Stories About Humanity,” reinforces the vocabulary word humanity. Students will practice their reading skills by reading their stories to a partner and their listening skills by listening to their partner’s stories. Then, students will participate in a class discussion about the different ways students showed humanity. Finally, students will write two examples, on their worksheets, using complete sentences, of how other students showed humanity.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
20 minutes
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Read aloud to a partner to support development of English pronunciation, syntax, and grammar
- Listen to a partners’ reading to develop active listening skills
- Participate in a class discussion to develop active listening and conversation skills
- Write complete sentences to practice correct English syntax and grammar
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 1 Unit 9 Worksheet 4: Sharing Stories Of Humanity
VOCABULARY:
- Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better.
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
Today we will read our stories about humanity (from the previous lesson’s worksheet) with a partner.
- Circle the room to support the students as they take turns reading their sentences to their partner (10 min).
- Now we will talk about how students in our class showed humanity. Who would like to raise their hand and tell me how they showed humanity? Write 3 examples on the board, with the student’s name and a brief description of what they said (5 min).
- Finally, we will write on our worksheet two sentences about what we’ve heard. For example, a sentence could be, “Ava showed humanity by taking her friend who was hurt on the playground to see the school nurse.”
GRADE 1 UNIT 9 WORKSHEET 4: SHARING STORIES OF HUMANITY
Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better.
ACTIVITY: Write 2 complete sentences about how your classmates showed humanity.
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