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Modern Austria © November/December 2016 Contents Teacher’s Guide People, Places, and Cultures MAGAZINE ARTICLES Austria: Crossroads of Europe 8 Expository Nonfiction 1170L The Sounds of Austria’s Music 12 Expository Nonfiction 1260L Sacred Bones 16 Expository Nonfiction 1110L A Tour of Vienna 22 Expository Nonfiction 1440L Guten Appetit! 26 Expository Nonfiction 1110L Driving in the Clouds: The Grosslockner Road 30 Expository NonfictionA Tour 1270L of Vienna pg. 22 • Alpine Skiing pg. 34 In the Land of Skiers 34 Expository NonfictionMODERN 1210L AUSTRIA Let’s Speak German! 38 Expository Nonfiction 880L Schnitzle, Schnotzle, and Schnootzle 42 Folktale/Play 650L Faces: Modern Austria © November/December 2016 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Faces: OVERVIEW People, Places, and Cultures Modern Austria In this magazine, readers will learn how Using This Guide 2 Austria’s physical geography Skills and Standards Overview 3 influenced the A Tour of Vienna pg. 22 • Alpine Skiing pg. 34 movement of MODERN AUSTRIA people, resources, Article Guides 4 and ideas for thousands of years. Faces: Modern Austria includes information about the cultural Cross-Text Connections 13 elements of this landlocked country that make it a renowned destination for modern Mini-Unit 14 travelers. Graphic Organizers 17 Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards 21 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How has Austria’s history as a crossroads of Europe impacted its cultural development? 1 Faces: Modern Austria © November/December 2016 Using This Guide We invite you to use this magazine as a flexible teaching tool, ideal for providing interdisciplinary instruction of social studies and science content as well as core literacy concepts Find practical advice for teaching individual articles or use a mini-unit that helps your students make cross-text connections as they integrate ideas and information READ INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES PAGES 4 – 12 Each article in this magazine is well-suited for teaching literacy concepts and content area knowledge For each individual article in this guide, you’ll find the following: Prepare to Read Essential Question CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 Content Concepts C3 Framework for Social Studies Close Reading and Text Analysis Next Generation Science Standards CCSS Reading 1-10 Key Vocabulary Writing/Speaking and Listening CCSS Reading 4 CCSS Writing 1, 2, 3 & 6 CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 TEACH A MINI-UNIT PAGES 14 -16 SOCIAL Magazine articles can easily be grouped to make cross-text STUDIES connections and comparisons Our Mini-Unit allows students to read and discuss multiple articles and integrate ideas and information (CCSS Reading 9) Discussing multiple articles (CCSS Reading 9) prepares students to write texts to share and CORE publish in a variety of ways (CCSS Writing 2) LITERACY ARTICLES 2 Faces: Modern Austria © November/December 2016 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: How has Austria’s history as a crossroads of Europe impacted its cultural development? MAGAZINE CORE CONTENT LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES CONCEPT SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS Crossroads of Europe Combinations of cultural and • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8 Expository Nonfiction environmental characteristics • Interpret Visual Writing 3 make places similar and Information different • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Diary Entry The Sounds of Austria’s Cultural practices are affected • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 5 & 6 Music by environmental and physical • Analyze Text Features Speaking & Listening 4 & 6 Expository Nonfiction characteristics of places • Analyze Author’s Point of View • Give a Persuasive Speech Sacred Bones A region’s predominant religion • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Expository Nonfiction affects its customs and culture • Analyze Word Choice Writing 3 • Analyze Text Structure • Write an Editorial A Tour of Vienna Human activities affect the • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 4 & 7 Expository Nonfiction cultural characteristics of • Analyze Mood Writing 1 places or regions • Interpret Visual Information • Research and Write a Persuasive Guidebook Guten Appetit! Patterns of food consumption • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 8 Expository Nonfiction are influenced by the resources • Analyze Word Choice Writing 3 of a region and the cultures • Evaluate Evidence with which a region interacts • Write a Legend Driving in the Clouds: The Physical features of a place • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 Glosslockner Road may inhibit or facilitate the • Analyze Author’s Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction movement of people and Purpose goods • Interpret Visual Information • Write a News Article In the Land of Skiers Physical characteristics of a • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Expository Nonfiction place affect the culture of the • Evaluate Author’s Tone Speaking & Listening 1 & 6 people living there • Analyze Text Structure • Present a Script Let’s Speak German Differences in language • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 5 & 8 Expository Nonfiction distinguish places from one • Analyze Text Structure Speaking & Listening 6 another • Evaluate Evidence • Present an Analysis Schnitzle, Schnotzle, and Oral traditions reflect cultural • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 Schnootzle elements of place • Analyze Word Choice Writing 3 Folktale/Play • Analyze Author’s Point of View • Write a Play Comparing Texts: CCSS Reading 9 Mini-Unit: CCSS Reading 1, 2 & 3; CCSS Writing 2 3 Faces: Modern Austria © November/December 2016 ARTICLE: Austria: Crossroads of Europe Magazine pages 8-11, Expository Nonfiction AUSTRIA: CROSSR OADS OF EUROPE Austria was involved in a series of wars in the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated the centuries that followed, and the Hapsburgs’ by a Serbian man. Austria-Hungary declared war Holy Roman Empire gained more territory with on Serbia, and all of Europe became embroiled each victory. It wasn’t until the beginning of in World War I. After Austria-Hungary and their th Austria’s importance to Europe is tied to its location the 19 century that the French army defeated allies were defeated in 1918, the Austrian Empire Austrian forces and claimed much of their land. was dissolved and the new republic of Austria 1170 The defeat marked the end of the 1,000-year- was created. The 650-year Hapsburg rule of old Holy Roman Empire. Hapsburg Emperor Austria was over. Franz II abdicated his throne and renamed Austria was in a state of chaos at the end of himself Francis I, Emperor of Austria. the war, and this made it easy for Adolph Hitler’s Political unrest, revolutions, and peasant German army to seize control of the country in surrounding the Danube River It was a cultural hub uprisings threw Austria and all of Europe into 1938. World War II broke out the following year, chaos in the late 1800s. Austria signed a treaty and Austrians once again found themselves with Hungary that created Austria-Hungary, a on the losing side of the war. After Hitler was by Christine Graf huge territory that stretched across central and defeated in 1945, Allied Forces restored Austria as southern Europe. A parade makes its way down the streets of Salzburg. an independent, democratic nation, but occupied In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the country for the next 10 years. during the Holy Roman Empire Two world wars may have ustria is only slightly larger than the state ruled by the Hapsburgs. Austria was prized Schönbrunn Palace is one of Vienna’s most popular spots. Aof South Carolina, but it was once the because of its desirable central European river center of the largest and richest empire in all location. Because the main routes between of continental Europe. The Celtic people were Italy and northern Europe as well as between among its earliest known inhabitants, and they western and eastern Europe converged in established an outpost on the Danube River Austria, the country was considered the changed the borders and governing system, but Austria around 400 B.C. The Danube, Europe’s second crossroads of Europe. longest river, became an important highway The Hapsburgs expanded their power by for trade and travel. In 15 B.C., the Roman arranging for their sons and daughters to marry Empire claimed the land and controlled it members of other royal families throughout until their empire collapsed around A.D. 400. Europe. This allowed them to build alliances and Over the course of the next 800 years, many expand their influence throughout the region. By remains proud of its heritage different ethnic groups ruled modern-day the 1400s, their empire was the most powerful Austria. In 1273, Rudolf von Hapsburg took in all of central Europe. The royal family built exile Score: exile control of Austria’s territories. Hapsburg was ornate palaces in Austria’s capital city of Vienna the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, a where art and culture thrived. Austria’s wealthiest German monarchy that ruled much of central families and the world’s finest artists, architects, L Europe. For the next 650 years, Austria was musicians, and composers flocked to the city. 8 a99 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Locate Austria on a world map How would you describe its absolute and How has Austria’s history as a crossroads of Europe relative location? Predict why Austria is known as a “crossroads ” affected its cultural development? CORE CONTENT CONCEPT CLOSE READING AND TEXT ANALYSIS Social Studies Combinations of cultural and environmental Key Ideas characteristics make places similar • Cite evidence from the text explaining why Austria is called the “Crossroads of and different Europe ” Compare this
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