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Literacy Support Artifact

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Grade level: Fifth grade

 

Content Area: Social studies- History

 

Colorado Academic Standard:

b. Examine significant historical documents. Topics to include but not limited to the Stamp Act, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution (DOK 1)

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Overview of Activity:

 

            In this activity students will be reading a section of the famous speech of Patrick Henry entitled, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. The students will be placed in groups of three to four students and will each be given a color-coated copy of the speech. The speech will have every sentence/ phrase broken up into different colors and the students will take turns reading their lines to recite the speech. The student’s will then decided who in the group will be what color. The colors are red, blue, green and purple, and if there are only three group members the group can say the phrases of the extra color together. There will also be one line at the end, the most famous line, that will be the color pink and the entire group will be asked to say that phrase together at the end. The students will then read through the speech, slowly, have each group member read their lines. They will be asked to read through the speech twice, and hopefully they will improve on fluency and inflection the second time. They will then be asked to chose one specific line or phrase from the speech and create a new sentence that paraphrase or reiterates the sentence they chose. They will do this as a group by first discussing the meaning of the phrase and then by writing down their new sentence. The class will then join together for a group discussion in which we share the sentence they chose and then the new sentence they created.

 

 

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