Here is a unit consisting of activities designed to challenge your scholars. The extended learning opportunities include planning a celebration, making a presentation to the class, poster making, writing poetry, a problem-solving paragraph, analyzing art, and creating a poster depicting everyday observations.

Concepts

celebrations, chinatown, firefighters, cinco de mayo, problem solving techniques, poetry writing, paragraph writing, art analysis, making observations

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite a firefighter to come speak to the class 
• Conduct activities as center rotations
• Provide a concrete example of an art gallery by browsing an interactive art gallery online 

Classroom Considerations

• The unit was created to accompany Houghton Mifflin's English language arts curriculum; however, it may also be conducted on its own or alongside another curriulum covering similar concepts
• Lessons that require curriulum specific materials, but are not provided, may continue to be implemented with modifications
• Take classroom allergies into consideration prior to bringing in food 

Pros

• Tips are listed to better support English language learners
• Additional work is provided for early finishers 
• The unit is neatly organized and written in detail for easy implementation  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 W.2.2 W.2.3 W.2.8 SL.2.1.a SL.2.1.b SL.2.2 SL.2.4 SL.2.5