Lesson 1:  A Journey to the New World

Grade Levels:  1-3

Subject:  Language Arts, Social Studies, Art and Music

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will give an oral presentation detailing life on the Mayflower
• Students will research a question through informational text.
• Students will identify and differentiate between fiction and nonfiction.
• Students will sequence story events.

Materials:

• K-W-L chart
• Book titled If You Sailed On The Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
• Book titled Out and About on the Mayflower by Judy Veramendi
• Boat pattern
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Scissors
• Glue

Teacher Notes:  Required reading books may be located in your school or local library.

Procedures:

1. Do whole class K-W-L chart about what the class knows about life on the Mayflower and life at Plymouth and what they would like to learn about both.
2. Divide the class into small groups.  Each group will use the book If You Sailed On The Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern as a reference to answer questions assigned to them from the K-W-L chart.
3. Each group will give an oral presentation of their findings to the class.
4. Read aloud Out and About on the Mayflower by Judy Veramendi as a class, small groups, or partners.
5. Make a sailboat using the attached pattern.  Each student will do a writing activity on the body of the boat.  They will write three sentences describing life on the Mayflower.  Each student will then color, cut out, and paste their boat together.

Modifications:

Students with special needs who are unable to read the story independently can have the story read to them.  The writing activity could be dictated to the teacher by students not able to write the sentences themselves.  The teacher could write the student's sentences on the boat, then the student could complete their boat.

Enrichment Activities:

• Mayflower color sheet
• Find places of interest in current day Plymouth, Massachusetts @ http://4thanksgiving.4anything.com

Assess information presented in students' oral presentations and the completion of the K-W-L charts and on the boat writing activity.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:

Language Arts: 1.11, 1.18, 1.20, 1.21, 1.22, 1.24, 1.25, 1.27, 1.28, 1.30, 1.38, 2.19, 2.25, 2.28, 2.35, 2.36, 2.46, 2.47, 2.50, 1.74, 1.76, 1,77, 2.77, 2.78, 2.81, 1.113, 1.115, 2.121, 2.125, 1.58, 2.54, 1.67, 1.68, 2.70, 2.71, 2.72, 2.74, 1.96, 1.97, 1.99, 2.99, 2.100

Social Studies: 1.21, 2.22, 2.24, 3.5, 3.8, 3.30, 3.31, 3.37, 3.40, 3.42

Art: 1.4, 2.1

National Standards:

Language Arts
4.  Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
5.  Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
6.  Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational tests.
8.  Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.

History
1.  Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago.

References:  McGovern, A. (1991). If You Sailed On The Mayflower in 1620.  New York: Scholastic, Inc.

Authors:  Lori VanScoy, Delphene Haddox, and Susan Jones
 
 

Unit Overview

Lesson 1: Journey to the New World

Lesson 2: Pilgrim

Lesson 3: Helpful Indians

Lesson 4: Thanksgiving Then

Lesson 5: Thanksgiving Now