Unit Overview 

In this 3rd grade unit, students will become reporters and investigate the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and the importance of the declaration of human rights. Literacy standards make up the backbone of this unit plan with asking and answering questions to demonstrate understanding of a text. Though the unit is divided into 4 lessons, it is mostly independently driven with the exception on an introductory lesson and daily mini lessons. Students are charged with exploring a website personally created for this unit. The website guides students along each content area with summative activities per section. Depending on the technology limitations of your school, this can be done individually with conversation groups at the end of each section, or in pairs with more ending whole group discussions. There is also a SMART board interactive lesson I created to reinforce topics learned in the website. At the conclusion of all learning sections a cumulative project has student creating their own article to be featured in a class newspaper. 

- Unit Breakdown -

Lesson 1 

• Whole Group read-aloud: What is freedom? 
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• What are different types of questions? 

• Introduction of factual, comparative, & predictive questions.

• Student create questions about human rights & Eleanor Roosevelt. 

Lesson 2

• Students create reporter flip book with questions created in the previous lesson. 

• What makes a good answer? Students will answer "What is the difference between a want and a need?" and provide supporting details to answer

 • Introduction to website and self-guided instruction 

Lesson 3

• Mini Lesson: Important vs Unimportant details
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• Studnets continue activités in website 

Lesson 4

• Mini Lesson: features on a newspaper.

•Newspaper Creation: 

OPTION 1 : Each student create their own article based on a topic found in their exploration of the website. Teacher will compile articles into class newspaper. 

OPTION 2: In small groups, students create the front page of a newspaper with all the individual elements such as photos, tables, articles, and headlines. 

- Resources -

This lesson features personally made & curated videos, written & digital activities, and a SMART board interactive whole group lesson file.  All worksheets, files, and instructions necessary to the execution of this unit plan is located in the unit website I created and provided to the right.