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Lead Wit & Wisdom® Resource Packet Professional Development Lead Wit & Wisdom Resource Packet WIT & WISDOM® Contents Wit & Wisdom K–8 Modules at a Glance .................................................................. 1 Kindergarten Module Synopses ............................................................................... 3 Grade 1 Module Synopses ...................................................................................... 7 Grade 2 Module Synopses ..................................................................................... 11 Grade 3 Module Synopses .....................................................................................15 Grade 4 Module Synopses .....................................................................................19 Grade 5 Module Synopses .................................................................................... 23 Grade 6 Module Synopses .................................................................................... 27 Grade 7 Module Synopses .....................................................................................31 Grade 8 Module Synopses .................................................................................... 35 Copyright © 2019 Great Minds® Lead Wit & Wisdom Resource Packet • K–8 Modules at a Glance WIT & WISDOM® Wit & Wisdom® K–8 Modules at a Glance Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 The Five Senses Once Upon a Farm America, Then and Now The Continents How do our senses help us What makes a good story? How has life in America What makes the world K changed over time? fascinating? learn? Narrative Writing Informative Writing Informative Writing (Research) Opinion Writing A World of Books Creature Features Powerful Forces Cinderella Stories How do books change lives What can we discover about How do people respond to the Why do people around the 1 around the world? animals’ unique features? powerful force of the wind? world admire Cinderella? Narrative Writing Informative Writing (Research) Narrative Writing Opinion Writing A Season of Change The American West Civil Rights Heroes Good Eating How does change impact What was life like in the West How can people respond to How does food nourish us? 2 people and nature? for early Americans? injustice? Opinion Writing (Research) Informative Writing Informative Writing Narrative Writing The Sea Outer Space A New Home Artists Make Art Why do people explore the sea? How do people learn about How do stories help us What is an artist? space? understand immigrants’ 3 Informative Writing Informative Writing (Research) experiences? Opinion Writing Narrative Writing A Great Heart Extreme Settings The Redcoats Are Coming! Myth Making What does it mean to have How does a challenging setting Why is it important to What can we learn from myths 4 a great heart, literally and or physical environment change understand all sides of a story? and stories? figuratively? a person? Opinion Writing (Research) Informative Writing Informative Writing Narrative Writing Cultures in Conflict Word Play A War Between Us Breaking Barriers How do cultural beliefs and How and why do writers play How did the Civil War impact How can sports influence 5 values guide people? with words? people? individuals and societies? Informative Writing Narrative Writing Opinion Writing Informative Writing (Research) Resilience in the Great A Hero’s Journey Narrating the Unknown Courage in Crisis Depression What is the significance and How did the social and How can the challenges of a How can enduring tremendous power of the hero’s journey? environmental factors in the hostile environment inspire unknown world of Jamestown heroism? 6 hardship contribute to personal Narrative Writing transformation? shape its development and Informative Writing (Research) decline? Informative Writing Argument Writing Identity in the Middle Ages Americans All Language and Power Fever How does society both support How did World War II affect What is the power of language? How can times of crisis affect citizens and society? 7 and limit the development of individuals? Argument Writing identity? Informative Writing Informative Writing (Research) Narrative Writing The Poetics and Power of The Great War What Is Love? Teens as Change Agents Storytelling How do literature and art What is love? How do people effect social change? 8 What is the power of illuminate the effects of World Argument Writing storytelling? War I? Informative Writing (Research) Narrative Writing Informative Writing Copyright © 2019 Great Minds® Page 1 of 38 Lead Wit & Wisdom Resource Packet • Kindergarten Module Synopses WIT & WISDOM® Kindergarten Module Synopses Kindergarten Module 1: The Five Senses Essential How do our senses help us learn? Question Literary Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña; Illustrations, Christian Robinson Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault; Illustrations, Lois Ehlert Informational Core Texts My Five Senses, Margaret Miller and Visual My Five Senses, Aliki Art Rap a Tap Tap, Leo and Diane Dillon Visual Art Le Gourmet, Pablo Picasso Flower Day, Diego Rivera This module introduces students to the five senses and how they help humans and readers experience and learn about the world. Students become aware of how writers and artists tap into the five senses to communicate experience and Summary how they, as readers, rely on their own senses to process information and learn. They gain knowledge of how texts’ words and illustrations work together to provide rich, sensory experiences. Students write an informative/explanatory book describing how the five senses help both them and a character from End-of- a text learn about the world. They cut and paste the name of the text and character they choose, collect evidence from Module the class Evidence Chart about how that character uses one sense to learn about the world, and then draw and write to Task demonstrate their understanding of that evidence. Then, they draw and write about how they use their own sense of sight or hearing to learn from the text. Knowledge: Students build knowledge of the five senses, exploring how the senses help people learn about the world. They learn to listen and look to gather information from texts and illustrations. Reading: Students use a rich, question-based approach to unlock meaning from texts. They develop basic concepts of print, identifying parts of a book and the roles of authors and illustrators and differentiating between words and illustrations. Students identify rhyme and repetition in texts and consider their effects. Learning Writing: Module 1 introduces students to text-based informative writing. They learn to unpack prompts and respond Overview orally and in writing, collect evidence to answer a question, draw in response to texts, and use sentence frames to construct complete sentences. Speaking and Listening: Students focus on the reciprocal nature of conversations, learning to speak one at a time and listen with their eyes and ears. Language: Students apply question words to ask questions about key details in texts, use phonetic spelling in their writing, and use words acquired through reading in conversations about the text. Reading Writing Speaking and Listening Language Focus RL.K.1, RL.K.6, RI.K.1, W.K.2, W.K.8 SL.K.1 L.K.1.d, L.K.2.c, L.K.2.d Standards RI.K.4, RI.K.5 Copyright © 2019 Great Minds® Page 3 of 38 WIT & WISDOM® Lead Wit & Wisdom Resource Packet • Kindergarten Module Synopses Kindergarten Module 2: Once Upon a Farm Essential What makes a good story? Question Literary The Little Red Hen, Jerry Pinkney The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Paul Galdone Three Little Pigs, Adaptation, Raina Moore; Illustrations, Thea Kliros Core Texts Informational and Visual Farm Animals, Wade Cooper Art The Year at Maple Hill Farm, Alice and Martin Provensen Visual Art American Gothic, Grant Wood The Cornell Farm, Edward Hicks In this module, students explore the elements and craft of good stories through a group of texts united by a familiar and classic setting: the farm. Informational texts about farm animals and life on a farm activate and build content Summary knowledge. Students then turn their focus to classic stories such as The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Three Little Pigs to discover the universal elements of well-crafted stories. Building on their practice of writing a shared narrative as a class, students write an original narrative, set on Maple Hill End-of- Farm, featuring one farm animal they learned about in the module. Students use a story map to plan their narrative, Module drawing and labeling characters, setting, problem, response to the problem, and resolution. After rehearsing their Task story with a partner, students write one sentence and create an illustration for each event—problem, response to the problem, and resolution. Knowledge: Students build knowledge of farm life and animals in both fictional and informational text. As they explore well-known stories about farm animals, students identify story elements and how the elements work together to create a narrative. Reading: Students continue to use a question-based approach to unlock meaning from texts. They learn about story structure and how story elements work together to create a cohesive narrative. Learning Writing: Students build on their informative writing skills as they write about story elements in their reading. This Overview focus helps them develop the content knowledge and skills to write their own text-based narrative.