Name: Amy Peabody Grade: 1st Subject/Topic/Activity: Veterans Day Date: Veterans Day, November 11th Standards: 1.RIT.

.1: Key Ideas and Details- 1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. 1.RIT.2: Key Ideas and Details- 2. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. 1.RIT.3: Key Ideas and Details- 3. Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. 1.W.2: Text Types and Purposes- 2. Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. 1.SL.4: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas- 4. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. Objective: Students will be able to retell the historical events that have happened in the past to make Veterans Day a holiday; as a class the students will make a timeline of events that have occurred. Materials: Brill, M. T. (2005). Veterans Day (Q. Z. Wang, Illustrator). Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, Inc. Procedure: to teach the importance of listening and the ability to retell events that have happened (text-to-self) Teacher Talk

1. Introduce the book Today I will be reading the book Veterans Day written by Marlene Targ Brill and illustrated by Qi Z. Wang. 2. Question students about their background knowledge What do you know about Veterans Day? Share answers Why do we celebrate Veterans Day? Share answers 3. Start reading on page 4, pause and emphasize the date November 11th. 4. On page 7, ask the question But who are veterans?

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Share answers What makes them so special? Share answers Continue reading through page 11, ask Does anyone know someone in the armed forces? Share answers Continue reading on page 13, once finished reading through page 15, ask When did the U.S. enter the war? Share answers When did the war end? Share answers Read pages 16-20, ask What did the United States decide to do to honor a soldier? Share answers Read pages 22-27, ask Who was President of the U.S. on the first national Armistice Day? Share answers Read pages 28-35, ask What was the holidays name changed to? Share answers What was the name of the tomb? Share answers Read pages 36-39, ask What ways do people honor veterans? Share answers Read pages 41-44, ask What ways do other countries honor their veterans? Share answers The class activity will be to create a timeline of important events that happened to make veterans day a holiday (each response to the questions asked will be written on the chalkboard) Who remembers why or when the idea for Veterans Day started? What was the original name of this holiday What was built after the First World War? What events occurred after WWI? (the projected hope is that the answer will be WWII) What occurred after that? Why was the name of this day changed? What happened when the date was changed to the fourth Monday in October? What happens after each war since the start of Veterans Day? Further extension How do you plan on honoring veterans?

Assessment: Informal assessment will be based on the accuracy of the students ability to retell events in order as they appeared in the book. Correctness of the timeline that the students create will also be assessed.

Management Issues/Transitions: Students will be seated on the rug which is near the chalk board, I will be the only one to move from my chair to the chalk board. After the lesson is over and the timeline is created, students will return to their seats based off of which season they were born in.
If you were born in the winter you may return to your desk. If you were born in the summer you may return to your desk. If you were born in the fall you may return to your desk. Lastly, if you were born in the spring you may return to your desk.

Differentiation: since this is a class activity there wont need to be any differentiation for assessment.

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