The Week Eve of The 4th Of July

Happy Birthday America

Lesson Plan #59

Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland, As Joy

Date: 06/22/2020

Overview & Purpose

It will be the 4th of July before we know it; and we’ll be singing the songs that built this Nation and with our troops who are fighting wars we welcome home the soldiers who are coming home from Afghanistan and other places. We have three key songs that have shaped our National identity and from the Constitution of the United States. You get to use the vocabulary of the songs to make a story with. Using key words and phrases you will develop a short essay. I will have links to the songs on YouTube and Links for the Lyrics for you.

This lesson uses music and art in a vocabulary study of unfamiliar words from the song "America the Beautiful," increasing students' vocabulary while also increasing their knowledge of U.S. geography. A discussion to activate students' prior knowledge about sights and scenery throughout the United States is followed by a read-aloud and introduction to the song "America the Beautiful," which is then sung in each session of the lesson.

Students learn the meanings of the song's words through shared reading and the use of context clues and images. Students then use photographs, illustrations, and descriptive language to create a mural shaped like the United States. Finally, through pictures and words, students reflect on what they have learned. This lesson is appropriate and adaptable for any patriotic event or holiday, and many of the vocabulary strategies are adaptable for other texts or word lists, as well.

Education Standards

1. Creativity

2. Reasoning Skills

3. Problem Solving

Objectives

1. Will know all or most patriotic songs and lyrics for USA

2. Will be able to sing and create a story using words

3. Will learn about the History of Each Song and its Orgin

Materials Needed

1. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/america-the-beautiful?lang=eng&_r=1

2. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/the-star-spangled-banner?lang=eng

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMdkcTmPS2U

4. https://youtu.be/goNEY727_sI

5. https://www.google.com/search?q=god+bless+america+lyrics&oq=god+bless+america+ly&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l6.8415j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

6. https://www.google.com/search?q=lee+greenwood+god+bless+the+usa+lyrics&oq=lee&aqs=chrome.5.69i57j46j0l5.4839j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

7. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1147/americabeautifulbooks.pdf?_ga=2.143050995.732492697.1592845811-552286036.1592845811

Verification

Steps to check for student understanding

NCTE/IRA NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.

Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.

Students whose first language is not English make use of their first language to develop competency in the English language arts and to develop understanding of content across the curriculum.

Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

Activity

Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson

Students will

• discuss and identify places, features, and landforms throughout the United States.
  

• use pictures to help them describe places and scenery located throughout the United States.
  

• create multimodal vocabulary posters that describe, illustrate, and define targeted words from the song "America the Beautiful."
  

• demonstrate understanding of the meanings of selected words from the song "America the Beautiful."
  

• draw and or locate pictures and write words that exemplify and describe geographic features of the United States, and use these resources to create a large mural of the United States.
  

• use pictures and words to demonstrate what they have learned about the United States.

4th Of July Traditions: Eight Ways Americans Celebrate Independence

• Parades. From midnight parades to ones that happen at a more decent hour, Americans love parades. ...

• Barbecues. ...

• Buying Fireworks. ...

• Going To See A Fireworks Show. ...

• Consuming Ice Cream. ...

• Flying The Flag. ...

• Festivals! ...

• Eating Contests.