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Teacher’s Guide People, Places, and Cultures MAGAZINE ARTICLES When Did Dogs Become Man’s Best Friend? 8 Expository Nonfiction 1160L Dogs from Here, There, and Everywhere 12 Expository Nonfiction 1320L Myths, Gods, and Dog Stars 16 Expository Nonfiction 1130L Holiday Just for Dogs 20 Expository Nonfiction 1000L On Your Mark, Get Set…Mush! 22 Expository Nonfiction 880L Hachiko: Dog of Japan 26 Expository Nonfiction 870L Crime Fighting Dogs 28 Expository NonfictionThis 1240L Dog’s a Star! pg. 16 • K9s at Work pg. 28 Ashes is Serious About Her Work 31 Expository NonfictionTHE 1060L WORLD OF DOGS The Dogs in Spain 34 First-Person Narrative Nonfiction 1010L The Night the Dogs Danced 42 Folktale/Play 500L Faces: The World of Dogs © October 2016 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Faces: OVERVIEW People, Places, and Cultures The World of Dogs In this magazine, readers will learn about Using This Guide 2 dogs and their interconnections Skills and Standards Overview 3 with geography This Dog’s a Star! pg. 16 • K9s at Work pg. 28 THE WORLD OF DOGS and culture. Faces: The Article Guides 4 World of Dogs includes information about the importance of dogs throughout history, the variety Cross-Text Connections 14 in their breeds, and people’s interactive relationships with them while at work or Mini-Unit 15 at leisure. Graphic Organizers 18 Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards 25 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How have dogs influenced cultures over time? 1 Faces: The World of Dogs © October 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 – 13 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 15 – 18 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: The World of Dogs © October 2016 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: How have dogs influenced cultures over time? MAGAZINE SOCIAL STUDIES LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES CONCEPT SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS When Did Dogs Become People’s perspectives • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 5 & 6 Man’s Best Friend? influence what information is • Determine Author’s Point Writing 1 Expository Nonfiction presented in the sources they of View create • Analyze Text Structure • Write an Op-Ed Dogs from Here, There, and Human activities lead to • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 7 Everywhere changes in the environment, • Interpret Visual Writing 2 & 7 Expository Nonfiction including animal life Information • Analyze Text Structure • Research and Write an Essay Myths, Gods, and Dog Stars Myths, legends, and oral • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 7 & 8 Expository Nonfiction traditions reflect cultural • Interpret Visual Writing 3 elements of place Information • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Story Holiday Just for Dogs Cultural practices are • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 4 & 8 Expository Nonfiction affected by the dominant • Analyze Word Choice Speaking & Listening 4 religion of a region • Evaluate Evidence • Present a Speech On Your Mark, Get Set… Physical characteristics • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 Mush! of places impact cultural • Interpret Figurative Writing 3 Expository Nonfiction activities Meaning • Analyze Text Structure • Determine Author’s Point of View • Write a Diary Hachiko: Dog of Japan Human interaction with • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 Expository Nonfiction animal life impacts the • Determine Author’s Tone Writing 2 & 7 cultural characteristics of • Interpret Visual places Information • Research and Write an Essay Crime Fighting Dogs Humans domesticate animals • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 6 & 7 Expository Nonfiction for leisure as well as work • Determine Author’s Tone Writing 1 • Evaluate Evidence • Write a Letter Ashes is Serious About Her Humans domesticate animals • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 8 Work for leisure as well as work • Analyze Text Structure Speaking & Listening 1 Expository Nonfiction • Evaluate Evidence • Collaborate The Dogs in Spain Human interaction with • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 7 Expository Nonfiction animal life impacts the • Analyze Text Structure Writing 1 cultural characteristics of • Interpret Visual places Information • Write a News Article The Night the Dogs Danced Oral traditions reflect cultural • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 4 & 7 Writing 3 Folktale/Play elements of place • Analyze Word Choice • Interpret Visual Information • Write a Folktale Comparing Texts: CCSS Reading 2, 3 & 9; CCSS Writing 2 & 3 Mini-Unit: CCSS Reading 2, 3 & 9; CCSS Writing 2; CCSS Speaking & Listening 1, 2, 4 & 6 3 Faces: The World of Dogs © October 2016 ARTICLE: When Did Dogs Become Man’s Best Friend? Magazine pages 8 - 11, Expository Nonfiction When Did Dogs BecOme Man’s Best Friend? by Christine Graf 1160L Dr Abby Drake studies wolf and dog skulls Using advanced 3-D technology, she can decipher the slightest differences between a Dr. Abby Drake poses with Hugo. wolf or dog skull Her work helped determine when dogs were first s an evolutionary biologist and member Aof Cornell University’s biology department, Dr. Abby Drake studies how organisms change over time. She also happens to be an expert on skulls. Skulls are domesticated excellent indicators of evolutionary changes that have occurred over long periods of time. exile Score: exile L 8 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Use a Venn diagram (p 21) to compare and contrast wolves and dogs Predict How have dogs influenced cultures over time? why scientists would be interested in studying the skulls of these animals CORE CONTENT CONCEPT CLOSE READING AND TEXT ANALYSIS Social Studies People’s perspectives influence what information is Key Ideas presented in the sources they create • State each side of the disagreement between scientists Find details showing evidence in support of each side Is it sufficient?CCSS Reading 1 • Explain the difference between cultural and morphological evidence Why does CROSS-CURRICULAR Dr Drake consider both types? CCSS Reading 1 EXTENSION • Locate details from the text showing the extent of Dr Drake’s research Why is this important and how does it help validate her work? CCSS Reading 3 Science Research the types of technology that are used when dating animal or human remains How Craft and Structure accurate are they and what do we • Determine Author’s Point of View What is the author’s point of view on learn from them? Drake’s conclusions? How do you know? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer CCSS Reading 6 • Analyze Text Structure This author approaches this topic using a problem/ KEY VOCABULARY solution format Use a fishbone diagram (p 22) to record the two different solutions to the problem of determining the age of skulls Reflect on each muzzle (p. 9) the usually long nose and mouth of an animal method’s strengths and weaknesses CCSS Reading 5 contradict (p. 11) to deny or disagree with what someone is saying WRITING Write an Op-Ed Write an editorial for a newspaper that discusses the qualities a good scientist possesses Why are these traits needed to be successful? 4 Faces: The World of Dogs © October 2016 ARTICLE: Dogs from Here, There, and Everywhere Magazine pages 12 - 15, Expository Nonfiction dogs from he verywhere me to Ce ate! re, there, and e A Ti lebr by Marcia Amidon Lusted ne of the things we like best about dogs is Scientists have studied dog DNA and learned of smell and the ability to withstand cold, they Everyone loves Labrador retrievers, and it’s Othat they come in so many different shapes, that modern dogs all descend from different could help find travelers who were stranded pretty easy to see where they came from: the sizes, and temperaments. There are dogs small types of wolves, but that individual dog breeds in the deep snow of the pass and bring them province of Labrador in Canada. They were With 340 recognized breeds, there is a dog to fit every enough to fit inside a teacup, and dogs so big vary because not all dogs came from the safely to the nearby St Bernard Monastery. originally called the “St John’s water dog” and 1320 that they sometimes take their owners for walks same kind of wolf or developed in the same They could even sniff out people buried in it was their job to swim out into the water and instead of the other way around! There are sleek part of the world. From then on, dogs were snow, and lie on top of them for warmth until retrieve fishing nets. Amazingly enough, the racing dogs and sturdy rescue dogs and agile being bred for certain traits and abilities that help arrived! The long-haired Lhasa Apso poodle dog, which we tend to think of as a sheep herding dogs.