2nd Grade History Unit - Week 1 At-a-Glance

Day 1
Social Studies
I can
tell how things have changed
over time by analyzing
historical artifacts and through
personal interviews.
compare and contrast life in
the past to life in the present
explain how a timeline shows
the order of events in history.

Lesson Focus: What is history and how do we

preserve history?

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Lesson Focus: Continue to develop the

Lesson Focus: Past vs. Present - What
concept of What is history? in our and can we learn from historical
other cultures (Native Americans)
photographs and artifacts?

Lesson Focus: Past vs. Present What can we learn from historical
photographs and artifacts?

Lesson Focus: Past vs. Present - What

can we learn from historical
photographs and artifacts?

Hook: Watch Dream Catcher Video

Activity: Sharing and reading of past vs.

present picture books. Read to class
and discuss similarities and differences.

Hook: Toys From the Past

Homework Sharing - if students
brought in.

Hook: Toys From the Past

Homework Sharing

Packet:
Toys in the Past &
Venn Diagram 100 Years Ago & Today

Activity:
Vocabulary Day 3

Shared Practice Examining Artifacts:

Artifact Detectives #1

Activity:
Lesson: How have things we use
every day changed? Reading A-Z
lesson plan with multiple passages
at different levels.

Additional or Alternative Resource:

Practice Examining Artifacts - Discuss the steps

Passages: How have things

changed?

SS ASSESSMENT 1:

(observe, infer, question). Then view photographs,

follow steps, & discuss what they tell us about life at
that time

Vocabulary Day 2

Hook: Read Grams Trunk

Fun Fact
Activity:
Discuss what is history and why is it important?
View VIDEO on How to Think Historically
Historical Thinking

Activity:
Vocabulary Day 1
Packet: The Dream Catcher
& Vocabulary Day 1

Packet: Vocabulary Day 3

Exit Ticket: What can we learn from

historical artifacts?

Packet: Vocabulary Day 2

Packet: Artifact Detectives #1 (shared activity)

Artifact Detectives #2 (independent activity)
Homework: Send home Grandparent Collection
Sheet and Toys From the Past Homework
Writing
I can...

No writing today

organize events from my life

into a timeline

Lesson: Bear Dream by Will Hobbs

Be a Writer
Unit 3: Week 2- Day 1

Grammar Lesson: Plural Nouns

BrainPopJr Video
Packet: Plural Nouns/playing soccer

Hook: Introduction to Timelines

Lesson: Intro timeline
rubric/planning sheet

Shared Writing: ending to story

define and use plural nouns

Independent Writing: write own ending

to the story

Lesson: Bear Dream by Will Hobbs

Be a Writer
Unit 3: Week 2- Day 2

Packet: Compare & Contrast

Shared Writing: just a dream story

Packet: Timeline Planning Sheet

COLLECT TIMELINE PLANNING
SHEET AT END & USE FOR TIMELINE
ASSESSMENT

Lesson: My Timeline
My Timeline Paragraph Organizer
Shared Writing: Draft 1 of Class
Timeline paragraph
Independent Writing: Draft 1 of My
Timeline

Independent Writing: write own it was

just a dream story
Reading
I can...
describe and identify three
types of Folktales: Fables,
Fairy Tales, and Legends.
recount the important details
of a Folktale including the
characters, setting, problem,
solution, and moral/lesson.

Lesson Focus: What are Folktales?

Create or Print Anchor Charts (sample ideas are
linked)
Folktales: fairy tales, fables & legends
Read: How the Fly Saved the River
(Anishinaabe/Ojibwe)

Lesson Focus: Review Folktale Elements

& exposure to Ojibwe/Anish.

Lesson Focus: Review Folktale Elements

& exposure to Dakota/Sioux

Lesson Focus: Recounting Folktale

(legend)

Read: How the Beaver Got His Tail

(Anishinaabe/Ojibwe Tale)

Read: How the Fawn Got its Spots

(Dakota/Sioux Tale)

Read: The Legend of Bluebonnet: An

Old Tale of Texas

TTP Stopping Points: Will focus on

retelling & elements of the story

TTP Stopping Points: Will focus on

retelling & elements of the story

TTP Stopping Points: Will focus on

retelling & elements of the story

Shared Activity:
Review Elements Folktales Chart

Independent Activity:
Elements of Folktales Chart

Shared Activity: Recounting a

Folktale

Shared Activity: Discuss comprehension questions

Lesson Focus: Recounting Folktales

(legend) & exposure to Ojibwe/Anish.
Read: The Legend of the Lady Slipper
(Ojibwe Legend)
TTP Stopping Points: Will focus on
retelling & elements of the story
Partner Activity: Recounting a Folktale
Additional or Alternative Story: The
Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by
Tomie dePaola

2nd Grade History Unit - Week 2 At-a-Glance

Day 6
Social Studies
I can
compare and contrast the
Anishinaabe and Dakota
tribes of Minnesota

Day 7

Day 8

Lesson Focus: What are Native

Americans and what was their
relationship with the land?

Lesson Focus: Anishinabe & Dakota Tribes

Lesson Focus: Anishinabe & Dakota Tribes

Hook: I Am Anishinaabe video

Hook : Life on the Plains

Activity: Read 2 passages about

Native Americans & how they valued
the land Native Americans Smart
Lesson Day 1

Activity: Native Americans Smart Lesson

Day 2
Read in an Anishinaabe Camp
Read following sections:
People of the Lakes - page 4
Moving with the seasons - 8-9
Setting up camp - 10 - 11
(in the wigwam, optional if time)
Materials from nature - 18-19
Hunting & Fishing 20-21
Food from the land 22-23

Activity: Read Moonstick & Native

Americans Smart Lesson Day 3

SS ASSESSMENT 2

Packet:MN Tribe Notes

Activity Options:
Frontier Heroes (App) and/or
History Cootie Catcher

Activity Options:
Frontier Heroes (App) and/or
History Cootie Catcher

Lesson: Authors Chair Share

Lesson: Authors Chair Share

Packet: Using a Timeline

Additional Activity: Share grandparent

artifacts (as available)

Day 9
Lesson Focus: Review what has been
learned about Native American cultures.
Use day for catch, up if needed

Day 10
Catch-up Day, if needed:

Reading ASSESSMENT 1 Dakota vs.

Vocabulary Assessment

Anishinaabe

Packet: Vocabulary Day 4

MN Tribe Notes
Additional Activity: Share grandparent
artifacts (as available)
Writing
I can
create a personal timeline
write an organized
paragraph detailing my
timeline

Reading
I can
describe both internal and
external character traits,
and support my answers
citing evidence from the
text.
describe & identify three
types of Folktales: Fables,
Fairy Tales, and Legends.
recount the important
details of a Folktale
including the characters,
setting, problem, solution,

Hook: BrainPopJr - Writing About

Yourself
Lesson: Critiquing Writing
Shared Writing: Critique Class
Timeline paragraph Independent
Writing: Partners critique each others
My timeline paragraph
Lesson Focus: Character Traits
What are Character Traits?
BrainPopJr: Character
Create or Print & Hang Anchor Chart
(Anchor chart sample)
Read: A Bad Case of the Stripes (Book
or on Storyline Online)
Partner Activity: Character Traits
graphic organizer

Lesson: Making Revisions & Writing a Final

Draft
Shared Writing: Revise Class Timeline
paragraph as a class
Independent Writing: writing conferences
with teacher and revise 1st draft, begin
final draft
Lesson Focus: Recounting Folk Tales &

Lesson: Review Plural Nouns

Independent Writing: Complete final draft
of My Timeline
Packet: Plural Nouns/Songs to Sing
Paragraph Self-Assessment Rubric

Activity: Recount the story through

discussion during turn and talk.

Evaluation Rubric

Writing ASSESSMENT: Teacher

Evaluation Rubric

Lesson Focus: Character Traits

exposure to Dakota/Sioux

Read:A Boy Called Slow (Dakota tale)

TTP Stopping Points: Focus on elements of
the genre & retelling

Writing ASSESSMENT: Student Self

ReRead: selections from A Boy Called

Slow, and discuss character traits. Always
refer back to story for evidence
Activity: Complete character traits
organizer together
Additional Book: For reference, read
aloud, or students Sitting Bull

Lesson: Recounting Folk Tales & Character

Traits
Read: The Fox & The Stork
Activity: Recounting a Folktale - complete
with a partner

READING ASSESSMENT #2
Passage: The Wind and the Sun
Graphic Organizer: Recounting a Folktale

and moral/lesson.

2nd Grade History Unit - Week 3 At-a-Glance

Day 11
Social Studies
I can

Lesson: Conduct Station with your

own class

Day 12 - Station Day

Day 13 - Station Day

Day 14 (Track & Field Day)

Station Day - See schedule

Station Day - See schedule

Grandparents Live! 9:00

Station 1: Wild Rice Harvest

Station 2: Dakota Language & Culture
Station 3: Dream Catchers
Station 4: Music & Games
Station 5: Storytelling & Folklore

Station 1: Wild Rice Harvest

Station 2: Dakota Language & Culture
Station 3: Dream Catchers
Station 4: Music & Games
Station 5: Storytelling & Folklore

ASSESSMENTS:

Day 15

Vocabulary Assessment #2 (2nd page of

test)
Mini-Assessment
Exit Ticket - How do people make
history?

Writing

on your own

on your own

on your own

Reading

Lesson Focus: Folktale Elements

(fable) & Compare & Contrast

Lesson Focus: Folktale Elements (fable) &

Compare & Contrast

Lesson Focus: Folktale Elements (fairytale) &

Compare & Contrast

Introduce What is a Trickster Tale

Review Raven on Smart Lesson

I can

I can
compare and contrast
fairy tales of different
cultures
describe both internal
and external character
traits, and support my
answers citing
evidence from the text.

Read: Cinderella (Traditional version)

Read: Raven: A Trickster Tale from
the Pacific Northwest

Read: Coyote: A Trickster Tale for the American

Southwest

Activity: Whole group discussion questions on slide.

Activity: Compare/Contrast (shared activity).

Can be done either with Venn Diagram on paper,
or Hula Hoop Activity.
Directions for Hula Hoop Activity: Put hula hoops

describe & identify

three types of
Folktales: Fables,
Fairy Tales, and
Legends.
recount the important
details of a Folktale
including the
characters, setting,
problem, solution, and
moral/lesson.

together to make a Venn Diagram, label which part of

diagram is for which story. Students sit in circle
around Venn, each are given an index card with an
element from one of the stories. They will take turns
placing their card in the correct spot. Entire class will
agree/disagree using WBT movements.
**You will need to read the story and fill out the
cards. Or have the students fill out the cards on their
own (give a job - some write something that was the
same, some write something that was different?)

Activity: Discussion during turn and talk

Track & Field Day

Lesson Focus: Folktale Elements (fairytale)

& Compare & Contrast
Read: Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella
Story
Activity: Compare & Contrast, discuss
story elements during turn and talk.

READING ASSESSMENT #3
Assessment: Compare/Contrast Cinderella
and Sootface
After assessment: Could read other
versions of Cinderella for more
compare/contrast discussion with class.
Option for Additional Read Aloud:
The Rough-Face Girl (Algonquin Cinderella
story)

Additional Resources for Small Group or Large Group Reading or Content Instruction
TIMELINES
ReadWorks Passages:
Lilys Time Line

HISTORY
ReadWorks Passages:
Oral Histories: (Gr3 - 900L)

LONG AGO & TODAY

ReadWorks Passages:
Grandpa & Me (gr2 (L/M)
Growing Up Long Ago & Today (gr2 N/O)
School: How Has It Changed?
One-Room Schoolhouses (Gr1 F/H)
Making Butter, Long Ago & Today (Gr2 L/M)

Reading A-Z Books:

Long Ago & Today (Lvl G)

Reading A-Z Multiple-Leveled Passages:

Why do we still study people of long ago?
(plan)
Why Do We Still Study People of Long Ago?
(passages)

Reading A-Z Multiple-Leveled Passages:

How have things we use every day changed? (plan)
How have things we use every day changed?
(passages)

Activity: Creating Timelines

Artifacts & Photographs

What do Historical Objects Tell Me?
What can we learn from historical photographs
and artifacts?
Pictures of Childrens Lives Long Ago

Native Americans
Migration Stories - Lots of different links to Native
American resources
Campfire Stories

Toys 100+ Years Ago

What do they tell?

Reading A-Z Books:

Native Americans (Lvl U/V)
Totem Poles (Lvl M)

Reading A-Z Multiple-Leveled Passages:

How were early Native American cultures
connected to the land on which they lived?
(plan)
How were early Native American cultures
connected to the land on which they
lived?(passages) (2 PASSAGES ARE USED ON
DAY 6)

Additional Resources Content Instruction: games, links for exploration, teacher background knowledge
Timelines
Game: Ordering Events

NATIVE AMERICANS
ReadWorks Passages:
I Am Native American (gr2 L/M)
Native American (gr 2 - 820L)
Native American Life (gr 2 (H-J)
Native Americans- Totem Poles (gr3-L/M)

Minnesota Reflections - photographs from early

Native American groups

FOLKTALES

Reading A-Z Multiple-Leveled Passages:

Why do different cultures tell similar stories?
(plan)
Why do different cultures tell similar stories?
(passages)
How do folktales show which behaviors a
culture values? (plan)
How do folktales show which behaviors a
culture values? (passages)