What do you know about Jackie Robinson? Amelia Earhart? Have you heard of Ruth Law? Or Thurgood Marshall? These are just some of the famous Americans we've been learning about and boy are we excited!
We've been spending our reading time focusing on biographies, specifically talking about personality traits (character traits) and how the person responds (or responded) to challenges.
After reading a few biographies about famous Americans, we generated ideas for some describing character traits. We also learned some new words we could use to describe many of the people we were learning about.
We went back to the texts to find things the men and women said and did that supported our ideas.
We worked on locating key details by color coding texts and looking carefully at the illustrations and in the text.
We "walked the room" reading fact cards and finding main idea and details.
And we did some online research, too!
We learned SO much about so many people and can't wait for Part 2 - a fun biography project we'll be starting next week! Stay tuned!
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