How Many Days to America Literature Unit

Are you looking for ways to engage your Grade 3-5 students in meaningful activities before Thanksgiving? How Many Days to America? is a cross-curricular book study based on the story by Eve Bunting.

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Are you looking for ways to engage your Grade 3-5 students in meaningful activities before Thanksgiving?

How Many Days to America? is a cross-curricular book study based on the story by Eve Bunting. This book tells the story of a refugee family fleeing their Caribbean home in the middle of the night to sail in search of safety in America, arriving in their new land on Thanksgiving Day.

This resource includes:

✔ Frontloading Activities

✔ Comprehension: Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

✔ Writing Activity: Newspaper Report

✔ Vocabulary: Word Choice

✔Math Activity: Elapsed Time with Calendars

✔ Vocabulary: Word Choice

✔ Drama: 4

✔ Answer Keys

This cross-curricular unit was designed to:

► build prior knowledge of the concepts introduced in the book.

► strengthen inference and comprehension skills (multiple choice & open response questions with answer key).

► increase writing skills through the use of a newspaper report assignment (includes full lesson plan, graphic organizer and rubric).

► increase awareness of word choice (lesson plan, worksheet & answer key).

► engage students in considering issues around immigration.

This unit is 18 pages long, not including answer keys.

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