"Birth of the Blues" Informational Reading Passage and Virtual Field trip
Blooming in Mississippi
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Grade Levels
3rd - 6th
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Standards
CCSSRL.3.5
CCSSRL.3.9
CCSSRL.3.10
CCSSRL.4.5
CCSSRL.4.9
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Blooming in Mississippi
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Description
Explore the History of the Blues through this highly engaging lesson. Journey back in time and discover the origins of Blues Music. Your students will enjoy multimedia videos, read highly engaging text, answer standards-based comprehension questions, access an online learning game, and participate in a virtual field trip to where the Blues began.
Resource includes: Multi-media videos to engage learners and build background knowledge, informational reading passage, standards based comprehension questions, including extended practice on RI.4.8 Evidence and Reasons, a virtual field trip to W.C. Handy's Birthplace, teacher slideshow, and student packet.
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Standards
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CCSSRL.3.5
Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
CCSSRL.3.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
CCSSRL.3.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSSRL.4.5
Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
CCSSRL.4.9
Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
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