Fiction/Non Fiction in SS
Achieve 3000
Non Fiction
Differentiated Text
Use of technology
Kid' Discovery
Non Fiction
Modified assignments
Fictional Stories
Literature books
EX: The dog of Pompeii
Allows students to read non fiction story about a fictional topic.
Myths
Fiction
Quotes
Non-Fiction
Primary Source
Allows for HOTQs.
Autobiogrophies/Biographies
non-fiction
Even though Biographies are not fiction, it tells a story, and students respond better to stories rather then an essay. Biographies will be more interesting to them, and they will be more interested in reading about someones life as a story and not an essay.
Having students read and analyze quotes is great in many different ways. Students have trouble understand quotes, especially if they are written in the old english etc.
Benchmark
Students will need to analyze and read quotes for the benchmark, so having students feel comfortable about reading and analyzing is a great tool for their success.
Our practice benchmark this year had about five questions with quotes from Hammurabi's code. And a lot of students did not understand the quote because of the way it was written.
Primary Sources
Using primary sources can be overwhelming and difficult for some students, and so it is important to have them work with quotes as soon as possible.
For younger ages, they have not yet had experience with primary sources, and quotes will not only be used in Social Studies, but in Language Arts, and students need to understand how to analyze and site primary sources.