Story elements lesson

 To be completed after chapter 8

Life in Hooverville - Activity 3

• Overview: Students will visualize what life was like in a "Hooverville" in the 1930s and formulate a plan for helping people in their community.
• Benchmarks
• Understands the defining characteristics of literary forms
• Discuss the use of fact and fiction in historical fiction
• Understands the basic story elements
• Identify special features of a book's setting
• Understands cause-and-effect relationships in text
• Identify cause and effect relationships between events
• Uses information from text to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions
• Use information from the book to create a visual depicting the setting
• Use information from the Internet to create a chart - then/now
• Use information from the Internet to form a conclusion
• Identify conclusions which can be logically drawn from information
• Identify that causes and effects of the Great Depression
• Identify local community needs
• Locate and read literature from web-based sources
• Use web-based factual information
• Develop communications using technology
• Create pictures using a digital camera
• Create a visual communication using imaging software
• Combine pictures together to create a visual communication

• Timing: Complete activity after reading Chapter 8.
• Book Connections: Soup Kitchen (page 46-52), Hooverville (page 62-87)
• Performance Assessments: Setting Image Rubric, Homeless Discussion Rubric

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