Black History Unit

January 7 - 9 Looking for Main Idea.

• Targeted Reading Skills:

  · Condense or summarize ideas from one text.

  · Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information.

  · Compare/contrast information from one or more texts.

  
  

• Independent Reading: students read about famous African-American inventors.
  
• Writing: Students take notes in GoogleDocs - one sentence per paragraph that relates the main idea of each paragraph.
• Writing: students use their notes to write a report on African-American contributions to the world of inventions.