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Folk & Fairy Tales

School Long Ago and School Now 0101.2.2 Listen attentively to speaker for specific information. 0101.3.1 Brainstorm ideas with teachers and peers, use graphic organizers, draw pictures to generate ideas, and use a variety of resources to gather information.

This slide show goes along with the lessons which begin with a letter arriving from a Ms. Minnie Strohman Grum a teacher in North Dakota in 1918. Minnie writes to her Grandaughter to tell her about the arrival of her steamer trunk. When the students learn that Ms. Strohman is from the last century, After some guided wondering about what it was like to teach in that time, student compose a letter asking if Ms. Strohman would visit. They then receive regular letters from her outlining her journey from N.D. to Tennessee -- In the meantime they develop questions by thinking about what school is like for them --- recess & games, lunch, buses, what their classrooms are like, restroom breaks, library? etc. By thnking about their world they formulate questions for Ms. Strohman --- Who, dressed in authentic clothing from the period, shows them the following slides to answer their questions. Finally, they get a lesson from McGuffy's reader to see how different learning to read was from they way they experience it, they get to make butter, see a pen made and write with quill pens, write on slates with chalk to practice....

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Spiders A Spider unit is designed to help students ask questions and take notes from a variety of information sources. The unit was begun with the __Diary of a Spider__ by Cronin -- an example of fction which also contains factual information! Students generated questions and left the library with a basket of spider books and magazines. Next students explored the website and took notes. The form below is an example of the form students used. media type="custom" key="4224373"