28 Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 1A | The Home of the President: Washington, D.C.
[Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]
I am going to ask a question. I will give you a minute to think about the
question, and then I will ask you to turn to your partner and discuss the
question. Finally, I will call on several of you to share what you discussed
with your partner.- Evaluative Think Pair Share: Did the Founding Fathers—the leaders
who helped to start this country—want a king or a president to rule
the nation? Why?- The Founding Fathers wanted a president to rule the nation.
Sentence Frames:
Did the Founding Fathers want to
have a king?
The Founding Fathers wanted a
president because...
A king... , but a president...
- After hearing today’s read-aloud and questions and answers, do
you have any remaining questions? [If time permits, you may wish to
allow for individual, group, or class research of the text and/or other
resources to answer these remaining questions.]
Word Work: Symbol
- In today’s read-aloud, you heard, “Each star is a symbol of one of the
states in the United States of America.” - Say the word symbol with me three times.
- A symbol is a sign or object that stands for something else.
- [Draw a heart on the board or on chart paper.]
A heart is a symbol for love. - Do you know of any symbols and what they mean?
[Draw a few more symbols familiar to the students, such as the
symbols for addition, subtraction, peace, walk, don’t walk, etc.
Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase the
students’ responses: “The symbol means .”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use a Drawing activity for follow-up. Directions: Draw one of the symbols
you know. Then in small groups, share your symbols with each other and
see if you can guess the meaning of each other’s symbols.