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Arkansas Studies Curriculum

2007-2008

Teacher’s Guide
for
Grade Three

Vivianna Becomes an Arkansan

Ideas for Lesson Plans

Summing Up

Emphasis

The emphasis in this lesson is to summarize what the students have learned so far and to prepare them to take the citizenship test.

This lesson plan addresses Student Learning Expectations PAG 1.4.

Items Needed

Vivianna Becomes an Arkansan
A copy of the citizenship exam

Expectations

At the conclusion of this lesson students will pass the citizenship test.

Activities

1)   Review what has happened so far.
2)   Have the students read the chapter silently.
3)   Have the students identify unfamiliar words.  Write these on the board and talk about them.
4)   Have the class read the chapter round-robin fashion with each student reading a paragraph.
5)   Have the class identify the major new characters and outline the narrative events in the chapter.
      6)   Discuss the major ideas in the chapter; review and, if needed, edit the class’s definition of citizenship.

Culminating Exercise

Prepare a copy of the citizenship exam. Be sure to include questions about Arkansas on this.  Have the class complete the exam.  Then go over the results together.

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