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Lesson Plan - 2022 Year in Review
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Learning Objective
Students will recount current events from 2022.
Text Structure
List, Infographic
Content-Area Connections
Current Events
Standards Correlations
CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.5, RI.3.6, RI.3.7, RI.3.8, RI.3.10, L.3.4, SL.3.1
NCSS: People, Places, and Environments
TEKS: Social Studies 3.17a
1. Preparing to Read
Watch a Video: 2022 Year in Review
After watching, ask: Why do you think these events are considered important events from 2022? What other big news events happened this year?
Preview Words to Know
Project the online vocabulary slideshow and introduce the Words to Know.
Set a Purpose for Reading
Have students look for two events that happened in the same month (Styles’s hit and Brown’s Supreme Court appointment).
2. Close-Reading Questions
1. Why is the U.S. Supreme Court important, according to the article? The Supreme Court is the highest court in the country. The article states that the justices on the Court “make important decisions on laws that can affect the entire country.”
(RI.3.1 TEXT EVIDENCE)
2. Choose one person named in the article. Summarize why this person made headlines in 2022. Sample response: Harry Styles made headlines for having the hit song “As It Was.” The song spent 15 weeks at No. 1—a record for a song by a solo artist.
(RI.3.2 KEY DETAILS)
3. What is the “category” of a hurricane? According to the article, hurricanes can be listed at five categories, or levels, based on their strength. A Category 5 hurricane is the strongest.
(RI.3.4 DETERMINE MEANING)
3. Skill Building
FEATURED SKILL: Reading Comprehension
Use the choice board on the Skill Builder “Choose Three” to assess comprehension.
(RI.3.1 READING COMPREHENSION)
Multilingual Learners
Point out the phrase “nothing was bigger” in the section about Harry Styles. Explain that here, the adjective big is used in an informal way to mean popular or well-known.
Striving Readers
The article defines two Words to Know, but readers may encounter other words they find challenging. Have them circle or list such words. Discuss the meanings together.
Writing Extension
Have each student choose an additional news event from 2022 and write a brief summary of it. Post students’ work on a year-in-review bulletin board.