In this lesson, students will learn the reasons for the Stamp Act, the colonists' reactions to the Stamp Act, and the impact of the Stamp Act on the pocketbooks of American colonists. Students will organize their thoughts into a three-paragraph essay in which they address the reasons for, opposition to, and impact of the Stamp Act. These essays should include direct references and quotations from the primary sources as support for their arguments.

Students will see multiple accounts of the same event, the Battle of Little Bighorn/Greasy Grass. They will look at the differences in perspecitves as well as evaluate the relationship between the American settlers and American Indian groups based on accuracy of historical information.

Students will complete a K-W-L google slide on space and what they know. This slide will be located on their choice board (Pluto). After reading their Wonders anchor text “When is a Planet Not a Planet”, students will be asked to complete 4 activities out of 8 from a choice board to help further their understanding about Pluto and other information presented in the anchor text. Once students have completed the choice board activities they will share their findings in a Flip Grid stating their opinion on whether or not Pluto is in fact a planet?

In this lesson, students will use thematically related texts, organized from least to most complex, to gather a word bank of supporting details and content vocabulary about a concept. Then they use these words as a basis for writing acrostic poems, which support organization of information around a central idea, as the lines of an acrostic poem are held together by the topic or main idea spelled vertically.