2019 Capital Preparatory Harbor Lower School Spring Break Project

Grade 4 ELA

Assignment Objective:

I know how to minimize my spring learning loss because I can complete a subject specific project and participate in learning activities to reassess on standards taught during Quint 3.

Description of Spring Break Learning Project:

Spring Break Learning Projects (SBLP) are required assignments for all scholars attending CPHS for the 2018-2019 school year. SBLPs are designed as Harbor Lower’s means to re-assess in standards taught during the Quints 3 and 4 of the 2018-19 school year.

Each grade level project will consist of numerous tasks to complete, allowing scholars to demonstrate what they have learned during the semester.

All assignments will be posted on Illuminator’s Google Classrooms.

All scholars in the grade above will complete all assignment tasks outlined in this document.

Projects are due on the first Friday back from vacation, March 22, and will be graded as assessment scores for Common Core Standards for each class.  

Projects may be completed online using Google Docs (shared with your Illuminators) or worksheets may be printed out and submitted.

Assignment Objective:

I know how to minimize my spring learning loss because I can complete a subject specific project and participate in learning activities to reassess on standards taught during Quint 3.

Spring Break Learning Project:

4th GradeProject Theme: Social Justice

As a member of Capital Preparatory Schools scholars are asked to investigate who they are as an agent of change. They do so by exploring the CPREP learner expectations, which are Scholars as Collaborators, Scholars as Problem Solvers, Scholars as Researchers, Scholars as Empathetic Citizens and Scholars as Pillars of Knowledge.

Common Core Standards and NGGSS to be Assessed

Learner Expectation(s) to be explored through this project: Researcher, Empathetic Citizen, Pillars of Knowledge

Subject: ELA

Standards: RI 4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

RI 4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

Assignment Objective:

I know how to minimize my spring learning loss because I can complete a subject specific project and participate in learning activities to reassess on standards taught during Quint 3.

Tasks (worksheets attached)

Scholars must complete all the activities the following tasks

Name and Description of Tasks:

Task 1: Read the historical accounts on Paul Revere and Sybil Ludington and their respective roles in the Revolutionary War, then use the graphic organizer to compare their stories.

Task 2: Reread the text and answer the TDQ’s

Task 3: Construct a creative timeline of notable women of Connecticut

2019 Capital Preparatory Harbor Lower School Spring Break Project

English Worksheets and Rubrics for Grade 3

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for his ride and warning to the colonists that the British were coming.

Where did Paul grow up?

Paul Revere was born in December 1734 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a silversmith and Paul would grow up to be a silversmith as well.

The Sons of Liberty

Paul Revere soon became active in the Sons of Liberty, a political group of American Patriots who wanted liberty for the colonies. Other famous members included John Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams.

He was involved in the Boston Tea Party and may have been at the Boston Massacre as well.

Paul Revere's Ride

In April of 1775 the British Army was stationed in Boston and rumor had it that they were about to make a move on the leaders of the Sons of Liberty and other American Patriots. The Sons of Liberty were watching the British closely so they could warn the colonists if they started to attack.

Two main riders were to set out and warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. Paul Revere would go across the Charles River to Charlestown and then to Lexington. William Dawes would ride a longer, but different route. This way, hopefully one of them would make it there safely to warn Adams and Hancock. There also were other riders that Revere, and Dawes would tell along the way. They would pass the warning on to other locations.

There was one other warning system that Paul Revere put in place just in case none of the riders made it. Robert Newman was to set lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church to alert the colonists in Charleston. He would put one lantern if the British were coming by land and two if they were coming by sea. There is a famous phrase about this event "one if by land, two if by sea".

It was during the night on April 18-19 in 1775 when the British began to move. They were coming to Lexington by the Charles River, or "by sea". Dr. Joseph Warren told Revere and Dawes the news and the riders set out.

Revere was the first to arrive in Lexington. Dawes made it about half an hour later. There they warned John Hancock and Samuel Adams. They decided to ride toward Concord to warn the militia there. However, they were detained by British soldiers. They managed to escape, and Paul Revere walked back to where John Hancock was staying so he could help Hancock and his family to escape Lexington.

Why was the ride important?

The warning given to the colonists and the militia by the riders enabled them to be prepared and fight off the British army's initial attack.

Later Life

Paul would serve in the American Army during the revolution. After the war he went back to his silversmith business expanding to other areas. He died on May 10, 1818.

Sybil Ludington

By Jone Johnson Lewis

Dates: April 5, 1761 - February 26, 1839

Known for: midnight ride in American Revolutionary War

Also Known as: the "female Paul Revere" (she rode about twice as far as he did on his famous ride). Married name: Sybil Ogden.

About Sybil Ludington:

Sybil Ludington was the eldest of twelve children. Her father, Colonel Ludington, had served in the French and Indian war. As a mill owner in Patterson, New York, he was a community leader, and he volunteered to serve as the local militia commander as war with the British loomed.

When he received word late on April 26, 1777, that the British were attacking Danbury, Connecticut, Colonel Ludington knew that they would move from there into further attacks in New York. As head of the local militia, he needed to muster his troops from their farmhouses around the district, and to warn the people of the countryside of possible British attack.

Sybil Ludington, 16 years old, volunteered to warn the countryside of the attack and to alert the militia troops to muster at Ludington's. The glow of the flames would have been visible for miles.

She traveled some 40 miles through the towns of Carmel, Mahopac, and Stormville, in the middle of the night, in a rainstorm, on muddy roads, shouting that the British were burning Danbury and calling out the militia to assemble at Ludington's. When Sybil Ludington returned home, most of the militia troops were ready to march to confront the British.

The 400-some troops were not able to save the supplies and the town at Danbury -- the British seized or destroyed food and munitions and burned the town -- but they were able to stop the British advance and push them back to their boats, in the Battle of Ridgefield.

More About Sybil Ludington:

Sybil Ludington's contribution to the war was to help stop the advance of the British, and thus give the American militia more time to organize and resist. She was recognized for her midnight ride by those in the neighborhood and was also recognized by General George Washington.

Sybil Ludington continued to help as she could with the Revolutionary War effort, in one of the typical roles that women were able to play in that war: as a messenger.

In October 1784, Sybil Ludington married lawyer Edward Ogden and lived the rest of her life in Unadilla, New York until her death on Feb 26, 1839.

Her hometown was renamed Ludingtonville in honor of her heroic ride. There is a statue of Sybil Ludington, by sculptor Anna Wyatt Huntington, outside the Danbury Library.

Task #2: TDQ

1. List two details that the texts have in common. (RI 4.9)

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2. List two details from the text that are different. (RI 4.9)

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3. What does the word liberty in paragraph 3 “The Sons of Liberty” most likely mean and

what text evidence leads you to believe this? (RI 4.4)

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4. Why was each person’s ride important? (RI 4.8 )

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Task #3: Timeline

Create a timeline that reflects the significant dates in the life of Sibil Lundington. It must be CREATIVE (do not just draw on paper). See attached samples.

Google: creative timeline project FOR GREAT IDEAS AND SAMPLES

Task 1 Rubric: Compare and Contrast

4 3 2 1

Answered worksheet correctly and used evidence from the text to support reasoning

Answered worksheet correctly

Answered some parts of the worksheet correctly

Answered most of the worksheet incorrectly or did not complete worksheet

Task 2 Rubric: TDQ’s

4 3 2 1

Answered all questions correctly and gave 2 pieces of evidence to support response.

Answered all questions correctly and provided evidence

Answered some questions correctly and provided evidence

Answered some questions correctly with no evidence

Task 3 Rubric: Timeline

4 3 2 1

Timeline is completed with more than 4 dates

Creative with pictures

Dates are accurate (directly taken from text)

Timeline is completed with 4 dates

Creative with pictures

Dates are accurate (directly taken from text)

Timeline has 3 dates

Timeline is creative but lacking pictures

Dates are accurate (directly taken from text)

Timeline has 2 dates or less

Timeline is not creative and has no pictures

Dates are not accurate