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Lesson 1: People
of Schaumburg Township |
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Illinois Learning Standard: State Goal 16D: Understand Illinois, United States
and world social history. |
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Multiple
Intelligences:
Linguistic, Interpersonal and
Spatial |
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Thinking Skill:
Application |
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Outcome: Biography Box (Visual) |
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Objective:
Summarize key facts about a historic resident by creating a biography box. |
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Activities:
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- Form cooperative groups and assign one historic person to each group.
- Direct groups to read information from the
biographical sketches
on the website.
- Encourage groups to gather additional information from other sources: interviews or
newspaper articles.
- Introduce and distribute the
Biography Box Rubric.
- Direct each student to create a Biography Box.
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Schaumburg
Township Double Entry Journal Prompt:
Compare yourself to the historical person you researched. How are
you alike?
How are you different? How would your life be different if
you had lived in that family?
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Supplies:
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Biography Box Rubric
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Biographical Sketches in the Schaumburg Unit web site
- Schaumburg Township Double Entry Journal
- Boxes to create Biography Boxes
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Student
Groupings: Cooperative groups Individual work |
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