Grade 2 - Early Asian Civilizations

Early Asian Civilizations: Supplemental Guide | Introduction 5

In addition, there are various opportunities where students of the same
home language work together, fostering their first-language use and
existing knowledge to construct deeper meanings about new information.

Graphic Organizers and Domain-Wide Activities

Several different organizers and domain-wide activities are included to
aid students in their learning of the content in the Early Asian Civilizations
domain.

• Response Cards for Early Asian Civilizations (seven total: one per
  civilization; one per religion; one per story) can be used during class
  discussions. Students can hold up these Response Cards to respond
  to class questions.


• Map Quest (Instructional Master 2B-1) is a simplified map of ancient
  India and China. Students can use this map to locate the countries—
  India and China—and to locate important mountains, rivers, and
  landmarks in early Asian civilizations. It is highly recommended that
  you trace this map onto a large sheet of chart paper as you the lead
  the class on their “map quests.”


• Early Asian Civilizations Charts for early Indian civilization
  (Instructional Master 2B-2) and early Chinese civilization (Instructional
  Master 8B-1) help students follow along with the class Early Asian
  Civilizations Chart. These charts remind students of the important
  components of civilization and provide them a way to show what
  they have learned about early Asian civilization in the read-alouds.
  Students may wish to cut and paste images from the image sheets
  provided with the charts (Instructional Masters 2B-3 and 8B-2), or
  they may wish to draw and/or write in the boxes.


• The Religion Comparison Chart (Instructional Master 3A-2) is a two-
  column chart that compares Hinduism and Buddhism, two major
  world religions that originated in ancient Asia. Some students may be
  able to fill in this chart on their own. Consider pairing students who
  are not ready to fill out their charts independently with those who are
  able to do so.


• Sequencing the Story for “The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal”
  (Instructional Master 4B-1) consists of illustrations from the Hindu
  folktale. Students use these illustrations to sequence the plot of the
  story and to retell fiction read-alouds, including key details.