Hi Joy, What book are you using for the Trail of Tears? I'll be teaching my class about this topic later this year, and this sounds like a great activity!
Thanks for sharing! Eve At 06:32 PM 11/29/2006, you wrote: >We're revisiting Determining Importance this week by doing a >Textmapping project using a short book about the Trail of Tears. The >groups were actively engaged in determining importance like I've >never seen them before. Today we highlighted text features like >italics and bold print. Tomorrow we will highlight names of people, >places, and geographic features (rivers, lakes, mountains, etc.). >Friday we are going to highlight the problems encountered by the >Cherokee, and the solutions, if any. Then we are going to create >story bags using icons the students will create to signify their own >imaginary journey along the Trail of Tears. > Joy/NC/4 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
