1. SOCIAL STUDIES
III TERM
PLEA
Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Sources:
https://www.ducksters.com/history/native_american_tribes_regions.php
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/native-americans/
Topic: The American ancient civilizations Comprehension goal: What is the cultural legacy of pre-
Columbian civilizations?
Reading level: Literal, inferential and critic
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
During the reading:
1. Select important information
2. Keys to make an infographic: What elements should the infographic have?
After the reading:
1. Agreements and disagreements: Do you agree or disagree with the author? How do you react to these ideas?
Reading skills Learning Evidence
Recover explicit and implicit information in
the content of the text.
Take a critical position on the text.
Selects relevant information about the text.
Make value judgments about the form and content of the
text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
Identify economic, politic and cultural factors that have generated the native civilizations of North America.
BEFORE:
Reading objective: Read to account for what is understood by recognizing the main features from the Amerindians or
native civilizations of North America. See the video and after participate in the Jamboard, put a sticker and mention which
information can be true, probable or false. It is mandatory that you write your lastname in the sticker. Based in the
exercise you can ask yourself: What do I know about the topic?
MANDATORY VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9trnoOF1cxQ
2. DURING:
1. Select a partner (only groups of two students) and a category (there are ten) when the activity it´s activated in the
platform. Remember that for each group will be a native American region or tribe assigned. MANDATORY READING:
https://view.genial.ly/5f8b8e118dc7320cf4ce85f1/guide-native-american-tribes
2. Check the source or others from the selected category. Select the important information: What can I suppress?
What can I keep? This is relevant for the activity you are about to start.
3. One of the two students must create a Google Slides document and share to the partner. The two must create an
infographic about the selected American region or tribe. You can´t use other options because this tool allows collaborative
work and the teacher can see the record. Keys to make an infographic (structure):
Title
Central image, secondary images
Relationship between images and texts
Short texts using keywords.
Suggest a reading order
Try to use the suggested tools
Select the relevant information
Include the source
3. 4. Get the link of the document (be sure that Cambridge Partners can see it and edit, that´s the way the teacher can
see the record of the activity), copy to the platform (do not send the activity by mail). All the students must send the
link, that´s the way you will have a score in the platform.
AFTER:
Once the reading is over, Agreements and disagreements: Do you agree or disagree with the author? How do you
react to these ideas? Participate trough the chat answering in a short way to these questions, then you can contrast to
the video.
1. Native americans still live in tipis
2. Native americans gets lots of government hand-outs (economic help)
3. Native americans don´t pay taxes
4. Native americans are rich off of casinos
5. All Native americans wear headdresses
6. Another word for Native americans is redskin
MANDATORY VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdW_LVfn28