INTEGRATED LITERACY ASSIGNMENT

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H2 LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS

I-H2.0.6Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.

BOOKS

Life at School (Then and Now) by Vicki Yates is great for teaching students the differences between school life in past and in modern day.

This book does a great job defining past, present, and future. It also compares school life in the past and present very well.

BOOKS

Communication (Then and Now) by Robin Nelson is great for students to compare ways of communicating in the past and present. The book also contains a timeline of communication evolution!

Life at Work (Then and Now) by Vicki Yates is about adults working and compares their work from past to present.

WEBSITES

http://kids.usa.gov/jobs/index.shtmlKids.govThis website allows children to learn about all different jobs from a to z that people do in our modern communities. They learn through video clips!

http://kids.familytreemagazine.com/kids/default.asp Family Tree KidsThis is a fun website for kids to discover their family history as well as make a family tree!

http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/kidszone/history_telephone.html Federal Communications CommissionThis website contains kid friendly information about the history of many kinds of technology/communications.

POETRY "ATTENDING A ONE ROOM SCHOOL"

THERE WASN'T ANY PRESCHOOL OR KINDERGARTENAT AGE SIX YOU STARTED IN FIRST GRADE,I COULD NOT WRITE MY NAMENOT ONE NUMBER OR ABC I HAD EVER MADE.

THERE WERE NO HOT LUNCHESOR BREAKFAST SERVED ON A PLATE,FROM OUR LITTLE TIN LARD BUCKETSCOLD LUNCHES IS WHAT WE ATE.

FROM FIRST TO SEVENTH GRADEONE TEACHER TAUGHT US ALL,STUDENTS SAT IN ROWS IN ONE BIG ROOMNO BATHROOM, GYMNASIUM OR STUDY HALL.

THE BUILDING HAD TWO DOORSMAIN ONE UP FRONT - ONE AT THE BACK,TWO CLOSETS ON EACH SIDE OF THE DOORUSED FOR LUNCH BUCKETS AND A COAT RACK.

HEATING STOVE SAT IN THE MIDDLETHE ROOM WAS OFTEN DRAFTY AND COLD,

THIS ONE ROOM SCHOOL BUILDINGHAD BEEN STANDING FOR MANY YEARS - WAS GETTING OLD.

THERE WASN'T A BATHROOMRAISE YOUR HAND - "IF YOU HAD TO GO,"TWO LITTLE OUT-HOUSES SAT FAR APARTDOWN AMONG SOME BUSHES AND WEEDS IN A FENCE ROW.

WE TOOK TURNS BEATING THE ERASERS CLEANPOUNDING THAT CHALK DUST WAS A LOT OF FUN,I LIKED DOING THIS BETTER THANPLAYING BASEBALL AND NEVER MAKING A HOME-RUN.

HAD TO WALK ABOUT HALF MILE TO GET HOMEWE WERE ANXIOUS TO GET HOME TO PLAY,THERE WEREN'T ANY BUSES FOR US TO RIDESOMETHING WE DID ALMOST EVERY SCHOOL DAY.

PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AND A PRAYERAFTER THE TEACHER RANG THE BELL,IF YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG - GOT A SPANKING

NO ONE WAS SENT HOME OR EXPELLED.

"ATTENDING A ONE ROOM SCHOOL“ CONTINUED

WE WROTE WITH A YELLOW NO. TWO LEAD PENCILNO ASSORTED COLORS IN GEL BALL POINT PENS,NO FOLDERS, OR SPECIAL BINDERSNO BACKPACKS TO CARRY OUR BOOKS IN.

HOW DID THE TEACHER TEACH SO MANY GRADESHOW DID SHE GET IT ALL DONE IN ONE DAY,WE HAD TIME FOR LONG RECESSESGOT TO GO OUTSIDE - HAD GAMES TO PLAY.

THERE WEREN'T BUT A FEW IN EACH GRADEMAYBE TWO - PERHAPS FOUR,TWENTY-FIVE OR THIRTY NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDRENBUT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, HAD

THERE BEEN MORE.

EVERYONE LINED UP AFTER PLAYINGWATER BUCKET SAT AT THE BACK DOOR,I AM GLAD I GOT TO GO TO A ONE ROOMTHEY ARE NO LONGER BEING USED - HOW SAD.

CHILDREN ATTEND MODERN SCHOOLS TODAYONE ROOM SCHOOLS ARE MEMORIES OF THE PAST,THOSE CARE-FREE DAYS OF MY CHILDHOODHAVE ALSO GOTTEN AWAY MUCH TOO FAST.

Written.....August 13, 2008Many pleasant memories of attending a one room school. I knowthings are better for children today - but those old schools were okay.

MUSIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVhtAiASAlQ

Family Tree by Peter Weatherall is a great introduction to understanding family members from the past and present.

TIMELINE

OLD FASHIONED SCHOOL YARD GAMES

Hopscotch

Tetherball

These games were played just like they are today! Children used to play these games in the school yard!

A grid is drawn and numbered. Then the child tosses a rock a skips to the square it landed on!

Two players hit the ball on the rope in opposite directions until it wraps around the pole!

VIDEOS

FAMILYChildren’s Poet Laureate Presents: All Kinds of Families (by Mary Anne Hoberman)This story about all types of families teaches kids that families now days are unique and special. Our families do not have to be all the same!http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/191

JobsDemonstration of how a horse-drawn fire engine worked! This is great to compare with modern day trucks!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcd5prYNF0

MAGAZINE

“Pioneer Life” found within The Mitten, is great to use when teaching students about family life in the past. It discusses the roles of men and when and what life was like for their families when they settled in a new place!

PHOTOGRAPHS

These are both fire engines! Let’s compare and contrast them! what is different and how does this make the job of a firefighter different?

LESSON PLAN

All Kinds of Families by Norma Simon (used in the lesson plan)

CITATIONS

BOOKS Frank, M. (2009). Children Past and Present. Pelham, NY: Benchmark Education

Company. Nelson, R. (2003). Communication Then and Now (First Step Nonfiction).

Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group. Retrieved September 27, 2014 Yates, V. (2007). Life at School (Then and Now). N.p.: Heinemann-Raintree.

Retrieved September 27, 2014 Yates, V. (2007). Life at Work (Then and Now). N.p.: Heinemann-Raintree.

Retrieved September 27, 2014MAGAZINE Pioneer Life. (2001, December). The Mitten.

CITATIONS

WEBSITES (n.d.). In Kids.gov A safe place to learn and play. Retrieved September 28, 2014,

from http://kids.usa.gov/jobs/index.shtml (2006, June 24). In Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved September

29, 2014, from http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/kidszone/history.html (2014). In Family Tree Kids. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://

kids.familytreemagazine.com/kids/default.aspPOETRY Cathey, A. (2008, August 13). Attending a One Room School. In scrapbook.com.

Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/34513.html

MUSIC Weatherall, P. (2009). Family Tree. [Online sound recording]. Retrieved

September 29, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=songs+about+family+trees

CITATIONS

TELEPHONE POSTER The Bell System Telephone Story Poster (n.d.). In Western Electric Products-

The Bell Telephone Story Posters. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/portcus/bell/the_bell_system_telephone_story.html

GAMES Forbes, J. (n.d.). Typical Games Played In & Outside One-Room School

Houses. In The One Room Schoolhouse. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.oneroomschoolhouses.ca/the-games-they-played.html

VIDEO Hoberman, M. (2014). Children's Poet Laureate Presents. In Poetry

Foundation. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/191

Horse Drawn Fire Truck Demonstration (2011, June 11). In YouTube. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcd5prYNF0

PAINTING Dark Roasted Blend: Love, Romance and Tight Finances (Pics) (2012). In

PicturePhoto1. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://picturephoto1.blogspot.com/2012/08/dark-roasted-blend-love-romance-and.html

CITATIONS

PHOTOGRAPHS Horse-drawn Fire Engine, Provincetown (2011, December 5). In fineartamerica.

Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://fineartamerica.com/featured/horse-drawn-fire-engine-provincetown-everett.html

Levine, S. (2010, April 28). New Fire Engine arrives in Shrewsbury. In The Shrewsbury Lantern. Retrieved September 29, 2014, from http://shrewsbury.net/?p=3690

LESSON PLAN Hooste, C. (n.d.). Family. Retrieved September 28, 2014, from

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-literature/CKHOOSTE/___FAMILY2.HTM#History

LESSON PLAN BOOK Simon, N. (1976). All Kinds of Families. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman &

Company. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://books.google.com/books?id=O9EsO3jhpY0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false