Reading the Coyote School News

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Reading the Coyote School News Carol Carney Warren Arizona Geographic Alliance Grade 4 2 – 3 class periods

Standards Arizona National Geography Geography Concept 1: The World in Spatial Terms PO 7. Locate physical and human features in Arizona using maps, illustrations or images. Concept 2: Places and Regions PO 1. Describe how the Southwest has distinct physical and cultural characteristics. PO 2. Describe ways in which Arizona has changed over time from statehood to today. Concept 4: Human Systems PO 2. Describe how Mexico and Arizona are connected by movement of people, goods, and ideas. PO 4. Describe the cultural characteristics of Arizona’s diverse population. National Geography ELEMENT ONE: THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS 1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. ELEMENT TWO: PLACES AND REGIONS 6. How culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions.

Standards ELA Common Core Standards Reading Literature Key Ideas and Details 4.RL.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text 4.RL.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions). Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity 4.RI.10 By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Standards Writing Text Types and Purposes 4.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.

Standards Language Conventions of Standard English 4.L.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Use correct capitalization. b. Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text. c. Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence. d. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed. Social Studies Strand 1: American History Concept 5: Westward Expansion PO 3. Describe events that led to Arizona becoming a possession of the United States: c. Gadsden Purchase Concept 10: Contemporary United States PO 4. Discuss the contributions of diverse populations to Arizona.

Overview Mexican-American ranching families practiced many wonderful and interesting customs from Mexico. Many of those customs are a part of American life today. It is important for students to recognize the many cultural contributions made by Mexican-Americans to the ranching industry and to American life today. Purpose In this lesson students will practice mapping skills while exploring the legacy of the Mexican culture to the occupation of ranching and to American life today.

Materials Coyote School News by Joan Sandin – 1 book per student or small group of students Gadsden Purchase Map- 1 per student and teacher projection Arizona and Mexico student worksheet Customs from Mexico student worksheet Rulers

Objectives The student will be able to: Locate the Gadsden Purchase on a map of Arizona. Measure distance using a scale on a map of Arizona. List cultural items and customs from Mexico. Describe the events of a roundup in correct sequence. Write a newspaper article about an event at their school. .

Procedures SESSION ONE Anticipatory Set - Ask children to think of examples of life in America today that they believe came from Mexico or the Mexican culture. List examples on the board or chart paper. Explain that they will be reading a story that has examples of cultural ideas borrowed from Mexico that they can compare to their list.

Procedures Discuss how immigrants to America bring with them many customs from their homelands. They continue to practice these customs after they become American citizens. Through the years, some of these customs (such as the examples they mentioned) have become part of our daily lives in America.

Procedures Hand out the Gadsden Purchase Map and the Arizona and Mexico student worksheet. Explain how Arizona once belonged to Mexico and have students read about how it became a part of the United States.

Procedures Have students locate the Gadsden Purchase on the map. They will be reading a story about children who live on ranches in this part of Arizona. The children attend a school that is near the town of Amado, Arizona. Locate Amado on the map of Arizona. Using rulers and the map scale, have students answer the questions on the worksheet. Then have shade in the Gadsden Purchase area according to the directions.

Procedures Review with students that these ranch families practiced many customs from Mexico and as they read the story they will identify customs and ideas that come from the Mexican culture. Hand out the Customs from Mexico student worksheet and review directions before reading the story. The story can be read together or individually as desired. The story may be read in two segments as your time allows. (1 – 2 class periods as desired by the teacher.)

Procedures After reading, review with students the many jobs and activities on a ranch which came from ranches in Mexico. The roundup is a very important time on a cattle ranch. Reread pages 38 – 40, which tell about the roundup. Using the Arizona and Mexico worksheet, have students put the events of the roundup in the order in which they occurred in the story. They may refer to the pages as they do the exercise. Collect worksheets for assessment.

Procedures End the session by reviewing the students’ original list and additional customs from Mexico learned from reading Coyote School News.

SESSION TWO Review what students recall from reading Coyote School News. Be sure they include that the children wrote stories about their school for the “Coyote News.” Have students discuss possible subjects they might write about if they had a class newspaper. List ideas on the board or a chart.

Procedures Have students choose a subject and write an article about their class for a class newspaper. They could use an idea from the class discussion or another of their own. They should use effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences in their writing process and correct mechanics of writing. Publish the students’ writing in a newspaper format.

Assessment Geography and History can be assessed with the students’ map work. 1 point is given for coloring the Gadsden Purchase and 3 points for the map scale exercise. 75% is considered mastery. Reading can be assessed with the graphic organizer and the sequencing activity. 12 points are possible for the graphic organizer. 5 points are possible for sequencing. 80% is considered mastery.    Writing can be assessed for mechanics using the 6-trait rubric.

Extensions Visit the site http://cowpuncher.library.arizona.edu/ for information on the school, the teacher and the newspapers written by children in southern Arizona from 1932 to 1943. Share the information with your students. Share the childhood story of Sandra Day O’Connor on her family’s ranch in Southeastern Arizona with Chico. ISBN 0-525-47452-8 Share information and historic photos of the Empire Ranch in Southern Arizona, at http://www.empireranchfoundation.org/RanchInfo.htm

Extensions Share another Arizona ranching story with students, The Year of the Ranch, by Alice McLerran. ISBN 0-670-85131-0. This is the story of a family’s year on a ranch outside of Yuma, AZ. It tells of a town family’s ranch experience as Papa tries to make the desert “bloom like a rose.” Although the title states a ranch, it is an agricultural, not a cattle ranch.  Information about how ranch children played can be found in the Arizona Territorial Cookbook: The Food and Lifestyles of a Frontier by Melissa Ruffner Weiner. ISBN 0-89865-312-6  

Sources Sandin, Joan. Coyote School News. Henry Holt and Company. New York. 2003. ISBN 0-8050-6558-X