Linking Lincoln

1. LinkingLincoln Francesca Fowler Mary Freeman Theresa Poole Suzanne Waldrop

2. Field Study Students will visit The Bostic Lincoln Center The students will spend time learning about the possible birth place of Abraham Lincoln. The students will go out to the home site and explore the foundation of the cabin he was born .

3. Pre-Reading Assess Prior Knowledge Build Background Write what you think in your Journal Watchthis videoAndersonville Prison Camp

4. Pink And Sayby Patricia Poacco • Pink and Say highlights the brief but intimate friendship of two young boys, PinkusAylee (Pink) and Sheldon Curtis (Say), during the Civil War. When wounded attempting to escape his unit, Say is rescued by Pink, who carries him back to his Georgia home where he and his family were slaves. While the frightened soldier is nursed back to health under the care of Pink’s mother, Moe Moe Bay, he begins to understand why his new found friend is so adamant on returning to the war; to fight against "the sickness" that is slavery. However it isn’t until marauders take Moe Moe Bay’s life, that Say is driven to fight. Although ultimately, both boys are taken prisoners of the Confederate Army, fortunately Say survives and was unable to pass along the story of Pink and Say to his daughter Rosa, Patricia Polacco’s great grandmother. As it was told, Pink was hanged just shortly after being taken prisoner, therefore Patricia’s book "serves as a written memory" of him. At the end of the story Patricia bids the reader, "Before you put this book down, say his name (PinkusAylee) out loud and vow to remember him always."One of the more heartwarming moments of the story is when Say tells Pink and his mother that he once shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln. Convinced that his encounter is a "sign" of hope, Say reaches for Pink’s hand, exclaiming, "Now you can say you touched the hand that shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln!" At the end of the story when the boys are separated, Pink reaches for Say one last time to touch his hand.After hearing this story from Patricia Polacco in the words of generations preceding, I eagerly touched her hand; the hand that has touched the hand, that has touched the hand…I can assure you, the hope is still alive!

5. Social Studies Goal 4 Objective 4.05 Describe the impact of wars and conflicts on United States citizens, including but not limited to, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, and the twenty-first century war on terrorism. Students will build knowledge of Lincoln and his role in the Civil War by watching this United Streaming Video Students will make a timeline of important events of the Civil War in Webspiration.com

6. Vocabulary Vittles Mahogany Musket Spectacles Deserter Hemp

7. The Hand that touched Lincoln

8. Math • 5th Grade • Goal 2 Measurement - The learner will recognize and use standard units of metric and customary measurement. • Lincoln walked a mile to the library as a child. • Students will use a pedometer to see how many steps are in a mile • Students will then as a group graph their total steps using create a graph.

9. What do You Think??? • http://voicethread.com/share/572737/ • Students will make predictions . • In collaborative groups, they will go out and measure how many steps the sides are. • Find the area of the home site using length times width

10. Summary "He led Eugene to the window of the atrium. It was alive with the songs of the birds. ‘I see sparrows, jays, cardinals, nuthatches and the mallards. Don’t all of those beautiful types and colors make this a beautiful place to be – for all of them?’"In Patricia Polacco’s new book, Mr. Lincoln’s Way, a bully overcomes his prejudice when an African American principal invites him to help attract birds to the school atrium.

11. NCSCS Language Arts Grade 4Competency Goal 1 The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.   1.01 Use word identification strategies appropriately and automatically when encountering unknown words (graphophonic, syntactic, semantic).1.02 Infer word meanings from taught roots, prefixes, and suffixes to decode words in text to assist comprehension.1.03 Identify key words and discover their meanings and relationships through a variety of strategies.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.

12. Students will be introduced to vocabulary with limited discussion of the vocabulary. Next they will listen to the story. After listening to the story, they will be divided into groups and given one of the vocabulary words to discuss and to write meanings in their “think clouds”. The class will next do an experiment experiencing discrimination. After a discussion of how they felt they will be asked to draw a picture of how they felt. Finally, students will return to their groups to come up with a discussion of their vocabulary word and then a final class list of the words and meanings.

13. NCSCOS 4th Grade Science Goals Competency Goal 1: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of animal behavior and adaptation. Objectives 1.01 Observe and describe how all living and nonliving things affect the life of a particular animal including: Other animals. Plants. Weather. Climate. 1.02 Observe and record how animals of the same kind differ in some of their characteristics and discuss possible advantages and disadvantages of this variation. 1.03 Observe and discuss how behaviors and body structures help animals survive in a particular habitat. 1.04 Explain and discuss how humans and other animals can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats. 1.05 Recognize that humans can understand themselves better by learning about other animals.

14. Science Activity Students will review the various birds depicted in Mr. Lincoln’s Way. Students will participate in a nature walk. They will record observations of the different birds . They will return to class and construct bird feeder from milk cartons and hang outside of classroom window. Each bird feeder will be filled with different kinds of bird seed. During the next month, students will observe the different kinds of birds at each feeder and record observations.

15. Use Create A Graph to make a bar graph representing the different kinds of birds the students have observed.Use Mywebspiration to create a Bubb Additional activities include:Use Create A Graph to make a bar graph representing the different kinds of birds the students have observed.Use Mywebspiration to create a Bubble Map of one kind of bird. le Map of one kind of bird.

16. How are They Alike? Students will work in groups to compare the to Mr. Lincolns. They will create a Venn Diagram as a product of their work. Students will then fill in a venn diagram using webspiration.

17. Work Sited http://learningeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/backyard-wonders/ http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/ http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/ http://voicethread.com/#q.b250076.i1305825 http://stancock.iweb.bsu.edu/CyberLessons/pinksay/cyberlesson.html http://webspiration.com http://createagraph.com http://discoveryeducation.com