Understanding Tenement Life
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2314/
A lesson plan for grades 3–4 English Language Arts and Social Studies
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore what daily life was like for the millions of poor Irish, German, Jewish, and Italian immigrants living in tenement apartments at the turn of the century.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 3
- Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.04: Increase sight vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary through:
- wide reading.
- word study.
- listening.
- discussion.
- book talks.
- book clubs.
- seminars.
- viewing.
- role play.
- studying author's craft.
- Objective 1.04: Increase sight vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and writing vocabulary through:
Grade 4
- Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.04: Increase reading and writing vocabulary through:
- wide reading.
- word study.
- knowledge of homophones, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms.
- knowledge of multiple meanings of words.
- writing process elements.
- writing as a tool for learning.
- seminars.
- book clubs.
- discussions.
- examining the author's craft.
- Objective 1.04: Increase reading and writing vocabulary through:
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 3
- Goal 2: The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.
- Objective 2.03: Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places.
- Goal 3: The learner will examine how individuals can initiate change in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
- Objective 3.01: Analyze changes, which have occurred in communities past and present.
