Dear Mrs. Parks Lesson Plan Treasures Gr. 4

Rosa Parks found herself at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement in 1955.  She was tired, not only physically from her job as a maid, but just tired of being treated as a second class citizen. So, she sat down on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama and didn't get up. Well that bus was segregated and she should have gotten up to give her seat to a White man, but she didn't .  What happened next is that she was arrested.  This started the whole ball rolling, so now you have to read the selection to find out more.


Treasures Grade 4 pages 324-329

Vocabulary:
activist
unconstitutional
boycott
segregation
privileges
colored only
inferior
racial
authority
nonviolence
equality
formal
informal
commitment
Pronunciation
privilege - priv li gde

activist Ak ti vist 

area a RE a  

Connecticut Ko ne ti cut 

suffered su ferd

dying die ing

commitment co mit ment


Questions
What is the same about all the letters?
What hopes do the children want?
Which is your favorite letter?
How do the writers feel about Rosa Parks?
How does she write back to the children?
How does she feel about racial segregation?
What would you have done if you were told to give up your seat on the bus?
Is there racial segregation in your country?
Is there religious discrimination in your country?
How are minorities treated in your country?
How can we change the attitudes that are prevalent against minorities?

Homework
Social Studies activity
Write a letter to a famous person asking for more information.
You could write to a famous politician, singer, artist,

Lesson Plan by Rachael Alice Orbach - English Teacher

Thomas Alva Edison

Treasures Grade 4 Bright ideas  Today we will learn about Thomas Alva Edison!  page 221-223

Vocabulary:
hilarious
dizzy
convinced
whirlwind
mischief
nowadays
independence
(come in) handy

Pronunciation
convinced - con vin sed
whirlwind - short i \
curious c  is a k sound
read in the past tense is pronounced "red"
Inventor hear the t
lighting lite ting
appliances  long I

What do you know about  electricity?
Who first discovered electricity?
Do people teach their children at home?
Could we use Edison's vote counter today? Why or why not?
What was Edison's greatest problem?
What was the problem with lighting with gas?
What would you like to ask the author of this article?



Lesson Plan by Rachael Alice Orbach

Treasures 4 Unit 1 Welcome to Mexico

Treasures grade 4 Unit 1 Welcome to Mexico pages 176-179 Lesson Plan.

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Vocabulary
overheard strikes opportunities citizen border boycotts unions immigration tamale.

Pronunciation
world hear the l


What information do we find out about in this letter?
Who is he writing to?
What is the author's purpose?
Why does the author of the letter in two languages?
What would you like to do in Mexico?
Would you want to eat a Tamale?
What is the problem with the Farmers?
Why will boycotting produce from other countries help?
Find phrases that show us that Paul is enjoying living in Mexico.


This link can be useful if you are homeschooling your child: Homeschooling your Child

Women Pick up the Ball - Treasures Grade 4

Women took up the slack during World War II in many different fields, one of them was Professional Baseball!

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We are reading the story within a story on page 150-151


Vocabulary
legendary
insult 
Succeed muttered 
fluke gaped 
flinched snickering 
salaries 
a big draw

Pronunciation
fl uke. long u 
lessened les send
Cooperstown town ow

Questions:
How does Lucy feel at the beginning of the story?
Where is she exactly?
What is interesting about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
What are the girls doing with the thing on their heads?
Why did the Girls Baseball league fall apart?
How does she feel at the end?
What will happen after this story?

What type of sports do you like to play?
What sports do you play in the summer? In the winter?
Are women's sports important in your country?
Which women's Olympic sports do you like?



Inspirational Kids stories Inspirational Kids Stories.
Lesson Plan by Rachael Alice Orbach - English Teacher

Treasures Grade 4 Unit 1 The case of the Missing Sandwich!

Mysteries
Treasures Grade 4 is a very interesting book for the 4th grade, Every two stories have the same theme

Vocabulary
assignment work to do in class
culprit - the guilty one
consideration - after some thinking
accuse to blame
suspicious - very strange
evidence- proof
 consume- eat
succession- very fast one after another
culprit - the guilty one


Pronunciation
vegetarians ve ge tar ri ans
consideration, con si der at shun
allergies al er gi
bumped bumpt
earlier earl I er
exactly x lac li
salami sa la mi
apologetically. a pol I ge ti cli
 alibi  al I by
 cafeteria kaf fi ti re a
 Whole -hole
growling hear the l
 certain ser tan
 determined de ter mined
  made hear the m

Grammar
hated past tense of hate


Questions
How did Ramon keep track of the clues?
Who does he cross off his list?
How did he feel when he found the smiley face?
Why did the Assistant Principal come into the room?
Why did he mention the cat?
What was the biggest clue?
What was a supporting clue?
Why was Ramon happy?
Could this story happy in real life?
What happens next after the story?
Has anything like this ever happened to you?




Lesson Plan by Rachael Alice Orbach - English Teacher

Treasures Grade 4 The Raft.

Another story from the Treasures Anthology lesson plan page 113 - 136

 

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Vocabulary 

syrup- like a sauce 

aside- to pull to one side 

beneath - underneath 

spark plugs - part of a car

  pole  a pole is a big stick

disgusted- something that you don't like

 hitchhikers - take an extra person in the car, they don't pay you.

preened its feathers

snorkel and mask  

doe - a female dear

wildness - not tame

Pronunciation 

syrup sur up 

aside a side 

beneath bee neth 

carving car ving

cane - magic e word

awakened a wa  kened

rope - magic e word

tossing toss ing

down - hear the w

landed - hear the ed 

dock  dawk

read - past tense  say it red

pouch hard ch

tacked magie e word

been bin

otter o ter

chasing chas ing
lawn - hear the n at the end of the word

pearl - perl

kept ;hear the t

tubes - magic e word

Questions 

Where is Nicky going and how does he feel?

What doesn't Nicky like about his grandmother?
Why can't he go with his father to the plant?
What did Nicky feel about the food?
What does he do?
Is he surprised that his grandmother knows what he did?
After reading page 116, what do you feel about the grandmother now?
How will Nicky feel about spending the summer with her now?
How do the pictures help the story?
What happens on page 115?  page 117?
On page 118, why is the boy disgusted?
What is the boy feeling on page 118?
How has the boy's feelings changed by the time we get to page 123?
What type of animal is a huge buck?
Where do you use a snorkel and a mask?
Read up to page 126, how does Nickey spend his time?
What is the boy doing on page 127?
How does this show a change his feeling about how he is spending his summer?
What type of animal do we see on page 128?
Where does it live? What does it eat?
What other animals do otters remind you of?
What would you do if you were living with Nicky's Grandmother?
What happened to the fawn?
How did Nickey save the fawn?
What will happen after the story now?

Read about the author: What insights do you understand about the story?

Treasures Grade 4 Wildlife Watchers

Treasures Grade 4  
Treasures is a Reading and Writing textbook geared for students who already know English, but need enrichment in vocabulary, grammar and writing.  It features non-fiction subjects, such as national parks, pre-history, space and geography so that students get a background in the natural sciences as well as working on their English.

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We started reading on page 108 to page 111
Vocabulary 
disgusted 
cluttered - too many of a thing
raft 
downstream
scattered - 
nuzzle  - an animal wants to get pet and puts its face near your hand
realized- I know, I think 
snout the nose and mouth of an animal 

Pronunciation 
Colorado col or ra do 
join in - say the word in clearly 
widened- wide the first e is a magic e it makes the i long.  The second e is the past tense ending ed
realized real i lized 
paddling pad dil ling
heron - hear the n at the end 


Questions 
What does the girl feel in the picture on page 108?
What does the frog feel? 
What is going to happen next on page 108?
What are the people doing in the picture on page 110?
Have you ever done that? 
Would you want to do that?
If we look at the first two words in the story , what type of story is this? 
What is the function of a diary? 
Have you ever kept a diary?  
Who is Lisa and what does she do? 
What does the word cluttered mean in this context? 
What did the author do when he/she realized that everyone needed help? 
Now that we have read up to page 111, where did the story take place? 
Why is it more interesting to give the setting now, rather than at the beginning of the story? 
How did the author feel at the beginning about rafting? 
How did this attitude change? 
Which event made him change his mind?
What did the author enjoy most? 
What type of story is this? Real life or Fiction? 
Did this story really happened?

Treasures Grade 4 - Student Anthology, Reading and Writing

Treasures is a Reading and Writing textbook geared for students who already know English, but need enrichment in vocabulary, grammar and writing.  It features non-fiction subjects, such as national parks, pre-history, space and geography so that students get a background in the natural sciences as well as working on their English.

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Today we are working on The Solar System by Thomas Morabito on page 102 -107


Vocabulary
orbits
craters
rotate
exploration
  10,000˚F ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit
 5537.778 Celsius
carbon dioxide. 
900˚F = 482.22 Celsius 
inactive
equator
1,100 miles an hour = 1770. km an hour
1,200 miles per = 1931 km per hour
dwarf - small
latest findings 


Pronunciation
craters cray tors
meteors me t ors
asteroids  as te roids
solid  so lid
Venus Vin us
carbon dioxide car bon di ox ide
Uranus U rain us




Questions 
What is interesting about Mercury? 
What is different about Venus? 
Why is Earth able to sustain life? 
Looking at the chart on page 103:
Which planet is the furthest away from the sun? 
Which is the biggest planet? 
What other facts can we tell from this chart? 
Which "planet" is missing from the chart?  Why? 



Homework:
Write an e-mail about an event, use the example on page 107.