EDEL 453 Spring 2012 Elizabeth Cross SSRR 3

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Elizabeth Cross

April 21, 2012

EDEL 453

Dr. Kolar

SSRR 3


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Melina ArriazaElizabeth CrossCatherine BethellDiana ZrateSSSR3: Enhancing Knowledge on Pink and SayCivil War: Group Work

Present a well told story that doesnt conflict with historical record

This story gives the human voice and element. It is not sugar coated it

presents history in a way that the reader can relate to the content.

Portray characters realistically

Pink is African American, and we know that Say is Caucasian

Provide accurate information through illustrationsEach page depicts what is being told through vivid illustrations. Polaccos

artwork is amazing she engages the reader to the text. Her artwork is really

detailed, vivid and it gives accurate information. The emotions of character

come to life through vivid facial expressions and colorful illustrations.

Present authentic Settings

The story was passed down from generation to generation and one day to

Patricia Polacco. The main points were very vivid and correlate with thehistory that textbooks present about the civil war.

The book can be easily tied to National Standards pertaining to social studies, and

language arts and can easily be presented K-12 education classes to further the

students understanding of the civil war and provide different perspectives.


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Enhancing Knowledge on Boy Soldiers in the Civil War:

Over 2 million Federal soldiers were 21 & under(46,000 were 25 &

over.

5% of Civil war soldiers were under the age of 18.

Shockingly some were as young as 10 years old ( 25 were under

10 years of age).

Clothes were not sized appropriately (either to big or too small).

The conditions of living were inhumane, soldiers were forced to

sleep with no blankets on freezing nights and made to eat frozen

pork.

Thumb screws, barbed iron collars, balls & chains, & shackleswere used for torturing Union prisoners.


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Using Inquires to teach social studies:

Using field trips to the local community to observe new & old businesses,

schools, & housing structures. Doing this is a good way to also incorporate

history lesson. A possible field trip in Las Vegas would be the Old MormonFort and/or the Clark County History Museum.

Using reflections from field trips is a good idea. Another way reflections are

useful is finding out what worked in a lesson and what didnt and using that

to adjust the lesson for next time.

The use of the internet allows students to go online and go on a virtual field

trip to places that they could not go otherwise, students are also encourage

to visit web quest as well. Because social studies and history has been

around since the beginning of time we use these types of field trips to put

ourselves there without leaving the classroom.

Spatial Dynamics is another method I would use, by doing this it will allow u

to build mini replicas & place figurines to see what it might have been like

back in a certain time in history. Doing this could lead to reenactments of

certain things that happened in time, e.g., Civil War

Developing inquiry skills through case study. Doing this students not only

learn the history , they can also learn the legal aspect of case. Students can

even find influential cases and reenact them.


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Hotel School House

House Lumber Mill General Store

Local Alphabet

The Old Deseret Village is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, it a place where the

original Mormon settlers decided to make their home. While most people do not live

like this anymore there are certain places around the world and different cultures

that do live like they were in the olden days where there were wagons and a general

store. At the Old Deseret Village visitors are welcome to come an stay and live like

the settlers did so many years ago. People are encouraged to live like them, dresslike them and even take a job like them to see how they had to live. They had one

school house for all the students and grade levels and one thing that I found most

interesting was that they had their own alphabet. This is a place that I would

encourage people to go to see how things pure and simple.


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Reflection:From where I was in the beginning of the semester and it now being

e end of the semester I have found that social studies was not what I thought

at it was when I was first asked about social studies and what I remembered

bout it. When I started I thought that social studies was just something that weere taught about we lived during the different eras in life. It allowed us to play

ames such as Oregon Trail to show us how it was to live like the pioneers.

I see now that social studies is so much more and is integrated into

st about every subject and lesson that teachers teach, whether they know it o

ot. Social studies allows us to see many different aspects of the past andows us to see it in books that one might think is just a story, but when read

an turn into a lesson that incorporates social studies.

I would have to say that some of the key elements of learning this

emester would be, going on a virtual field trips to see how and life was life bac

a certain era or learning about something that was a piece of history. Readin

fferent stories & integrating them into lessons, it seemed that no matter what

e book there was always a lesson in social studies and just had to be read

to to find the lesson. Learning about homelessness, this I found to be my

vorite because I love being able to help others and finding out that just

ecause a person is homeless does not mean that they are smelly or do not

ave a job. A person could just be down on their luck and waiting for the right

pportunity to come around. Finally service learning touched a soft spot. Beingble to research the different opportunities around the city that is in need of hel

nd finding out what they do for the people they serve and how they are able to

ontinue to serve the people that they do.


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Reflection:Discussions were helpful in the class, it allowed each of us to voice

ur opinion without being judged from someone else. It also lets us see that

ere are many different views on different subjects. Just because one person

inks one way about one thing does not mean that the person sitting next toem shares the same opinion. Discussion should be in all classes to allow

udents to express themselves.

Working in groups for the different projects that were done in class

ought a chance for people to work together and express themselves not only

th their voice but with their creativity when it came to putting the projectgether. Some times is takes more than one mind to come up with and achieve

eatness. I believe that group work makes class more interesting not just

ecause of the thoughts of others but allows us to be hands on. I believe that

eing hands on is going to make students think and remember more about a

sson because they got to do something other than just read and/or write

omething.

I have enjoyed my time in this class and have learned valuable

ings that I will take with me in my career. While I may not becoming a teacher

ese skills will allow me to teach other the skills that have learned and to build

n those skills to help in the education field. The learning never stops and I will

ways be learning something new everyday.

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