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Stories from the Panama Canal - Lesson Plan
A Common Core Standards Lesson Plan to Accompany 2015
Américas Award Winner Silver People: Voices from the Panama
Canal by Margarita Engle.
Grades:6-8
Key topics:Oral storytelling; Panama Canal; Roosevelt; Power; Resistance; poetic prose; point of view; voice; historical fiction
Learning Goals:
Students will:
- gain a more nuanced understanding of the people, hisotry and cultures surrounding the building of the Panama Canal
- consider the significance of perspective and bias in literature and historical accounts
- be able to recognize the distinct writing voices as they read mentor texts and hear oral accounts of stories
- recognize distinct elements of culture across various mentor texts
- strengthen their writer's voice through practice and implementation of sentence fluency in their writing
- be able to recognize hidden voices within stories and historical accounts
Author(s)
Kaela Thomasson Pavao
Categories
Lesson Plans
Grade Levels
5–8
Disciplines
English, History, Geography, Human Geography, Sociology