Classes completed their look at Ancient Africa
(post-Egyptian New Kingdom), subsequently moving back to the Americas
to study the civilizations of Monte Alban and Teotihuacan, both
located in what is today southern Mexico.
The 4th graders copied a chart with columns for both of these
civilizations. The chart was completed for the Monte Alban boxes, but
the teacher left it to them to complete the corresponding sections for
Teotihuacan.
Students also had to imagine they were transported to one of the two
civilizations and conjure up a "day in the life," mixing facts from
the book with their own ideas of what they might do on any given day.
The concept of Critical Thinking was also introduced, students copying
in their notebooks a blank chart including the "Three Thinkers" (Naive
Nancy, Selfish Sam, and Fair-Minded Fran). The teacher went through
the five minute movie clip, pausing to solicit information to fill in
the chart on the whiteboard (and in each student notebook). The notion
that "we all have all three types of thinkers inside of us" was
stressed.
Students then tackled a Homework based on the Three Thinkers in which
they had to write about a situation in which they had been like Sam or
Nancy, and how they could have been more like Fran.
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