Plan of work for week beginning April 11

Plan of work for week beginning April 11, 2016
Grade 3
Unit Title: Aspects of the Jamaican Culture
Focus Question: How did the Jamaican culture emerge and how does it continue to evolve?
Attainment Targets
 Read and interpret numerical and pictorial data.
 Read for meaning, fluency, information and enjoyment.
 Give and receive information.
Skills: reading, researching, writing, reciting, dramatizing
Resources: students’ workbook, flash cards, blank leaves, pictures, crayons, map of Jamaica,
world map, tablet computers
Content
Our culture is the way how we live. Culture includes how people obtain, prepare and eat food,
dress and the types of clothes they wear, construct buildings and the type of materials they use.
Worship and communicate with each other, travel from one place to another, entertain
themselves and celebrate important events.
A people’s culture also includes beliefs, customs, norms/ practices, music, art, sports, dance,
drama, values and traditions and the way their government is formed.
Jamaica’s culture comes about because of the contribution of different races of people blending
together to form an ethnic group. Our Jamaican culture continues to evolve/ develop gradually
because it is passed from one generation to the next and passed from one generation to the next

and it gets more and more creative and unique.

Day 1
Objective
-Name different aspects of the Jamaican culture.
-identify and name different ethnic groups
-read information about the ethnic groups and the contribution each made to the development of
Jamaican culture.
-collect pictures to create an ethnic group collage

Procedure/Activities
Pupils and teacher will pitch their voices accurately to the song Jesus loves all the people. (Tune
of Jesus loves the little children)
From songs pupil will identify the different ethnic group. Define the word ethnic groups. This
will be shown on semantic mapping.
Eg.
British
Chines
e
Indians


European
s
ETHNIC
GROUPS
English

Jews
Syno
ns
Spaniard
s

Pupils in groups will do research on the different ethnic groups. They will present information
found to the class.
Pupils will collect pictures of different ethnic groups. They will paste some on card word to
create an ethnic group collage. This will be displayed in class.
Pupil will read to find out that different ethnic groups make up Jamaica and from this our motto,
Out of many One People, was arrived at.
Say what a motto is.


Know and say their school’s motto.
The Europeans who came to Jamaica drove fear in the Tainos. They worked them very hard and
gave them diseases which eventually killed them
Form verbs and nouns that end with the letters ‘ear’ eg, sp, p, t, n, h, w, f, and d.
Pupils will list new words found









Fear
Dear
Wear
Hear
Spear

Near
Pear
Tear

Use the correct words to complete given sentences eg. Food, anthem, pledge, tainos.
The _________ were the first group of people living in Jamaica.
Identify and spell new words related to key concept eg
Words
British
English
European
Ethnic

Number of syllables
Bri-tish
________________
________________
Eth-nic

Day 3

Objectives
-Sing various cultural songs and listen to stones about great Jamaicans who contributed to the
development of Jamaica’s culture.
-Identify and name aspects of the Jamaican culture.
-Name and talk about different celebrations in Jamaica.
-Act out different aspects of our culture.
Procedure/ activities

Pupils and teacher will pitch their voices accurately to various cultural songs example: monuel
road, cori mi ackee etc teacher will help pupils to understand that these songs were done to take
the slaves minds off the hard work and the punishment the encountered.
Pupils will read about the Spaniards who come to Jamaica in the 15th century. They brought slavs
from West Africa who they worked very hard.
Pupils will be given a family of words that begins with cent or centi. They will know that all
these words come from the root word centum which means one hundred.
Centimeter

Centenary

Century


Cent
Centurion

Centu
m

Cen

Centigrade

Centipede

Use dictionary to find the meanings of these words from the family of words to complete given
sentences eg.
a. ___________________ is the name given to a creature that has many legs.

Teacher will read stories to pupils about great Jamaican who contribute to the development of
our culture eg. The national heroes, Louise Bennett.


Semantic mapping will will be used to identify different aspects of our culture.
Eg.
Aspects of our culture:


















Education
Festival
Music
Dance
Art
Craft
Drama
Poem
Stories
People
Food
Language
Clothes
Religion
Ceremonies
Money

Each aspect will be discussed
Pupil in groups will act out different aspect of our culture eg. Wake, wedding ceremony and
birthday party.

Evaluation:

Day 4
Objectives
-Identify and name traditional dances
-Identify on map/globe the countries from which our ancestors came
-Translate phrases from Creole to S.J.E
-Identify the changes in some aspect of our culture over the last fifty years
-Sequence the arrival of our ancestor

Procedures/Activities
Pupils will be reminded of how traditions came about. They will tell the one they remember from
previous lesson. Eg. Sit around the dinner table at meal times and pray together.
Tell about a tradition they take part in at home with their friends and family.
Compare music then and now.
Carry out research at home by asking parents and grandparents to describe any traditional games
they played when they were at school. Pupils should share the result of their research with the
class.
Using a time line pupils will sequence the arrival of our ancestors eg
1900 The Lebanese, Syrians, Chinese, and East Indians

1800
1700

More Africans came

1600

The English

1500

The first Africans came to Jamaica
The Spanish

1400

The Tainos arrived and settled in Jamaica

Questions:
Which group of people came to Jamaica in the 1600? The English

Pupil will discuss with teacher the changes in some aspects of our culture over the last fifty years
eg
ASPECTS OF CULTURE
Dance

OLD

NEW

Kumina

Sway

Music

Mento
Vintage
Rock steady
Gospel

Reggae
Dancehall
Hiphop
Gospel

Dress

Bell foot pants
Ballerina
Three sister

Spangy
Hipsters

Listen to and dance to music of yesteryear and today e.g
Then- rock steady, gospel, vintage
Now- dancehall, gospel
Compare prices of items then and now
ITEMS
Chicken

LONG AGO
$50.00

TODAY
$150.00

DIFFERENCE
$100.00

Day 5
Objectives
-Name some important people in the history of Jamaica and say what they did.
-Place words in alphabetical order
-Calculate the age of each national hero
Write synonyms and antonyms of words.

Procedures/activities
Teacher will explain to pupils that there are many people who have contributed to making
Jamaica what it is today but there are a small number of people who have made exceptional
contributions and they are given the honour of being called national heroes and heroine. Explain
that heroes are the males and heroine is the female.
Identify these people on pictures. Pupil will name these people eg Paul Bogle etc.
Briefly describe the contribution each made.
Locate the birthplace of each national hero and heroine on the map of Jamaica.
Place words in alphabetical order. Eg.
Tainos________

Music__________

Heroine________

Dance_________

People_________

Hero__________

Calculate the age of each national hero and heroine. Eg. Pupil will use subtraction to arrive at
answer.
Write synonyms and antonyms of each word. Eg.
WORDS
brave
Rich
Evaluation:

SYNONYMS
Bold
wealthy

ANTONYMS
shy
Poor

Literacy 1-2-3
Language Arts Window
Grade 3
Unit Title: Aspects of the Jamaican Culture
Focus Question: What is Culture?
Story: Tommy the Mocho Maroon Hero
Duration: 60 mins x 5 dys
Attainment Targets: Give and receive information.
Apply study skills and be able to search for information.
Use recognizable handwriting and appropriate spelling and vocabulary to
write for a variety of purposes.
Read for meaning, information, fluency and enjoyment.
Skills: Reading story, identifying, drawing, comparing, listening to
story, writing sentences, listening to story, retelling story, syllabicating words.
Materials: students’ Reader, hand outs, blank leaves, word cards, Language Arts
workbook, pencils, crayons, markers tablet computers.
Vocabulary:Tommy, Mocho, Accompong, hero, stories, fight, mountain, soldiers,
Grandmother, country, escaped, followed, wanted, asked

Content
Pronouns are words that take the place of common and proper nouns in a sentence.
There are many forms of pronouns. Among them are: he, I, it, she, they, we, and you, her, him,
it, me, them, us, and you, hers, his, its, mine, ours, theirs, yours, herself, himself, itself, myself,
ourselves, themselves, and your selves, anybody, anyone, anything, everybody, everyone,
everything, nobody, no one, none, nothing, somebody, someone and something.

Day 1
Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.

Identify new words using syllabication
Sequence sentence to retell story
Place right words in alphabetical order
Rewrite sentences using the meanings of words that are underlined.

Procedure/Activities
Whole Class (25 minutes)
Lessons will be introducedwith pupils and teacher doing picture discussion.
Pupils will read the title of the story then say what they know about maroons e.g; “Nanny of the
maroons”.
Pupils will identify and use syllabication to decode the new words related to the story.
eg;
Governed

gov-erned

Escaped

es-caped

Plantation

plan-ta-tion

Maroons

ma-roons

Accompong

Ac-com-pong

The given sight words will be defined. E.g. plantation- a large farm
Whole group reading of the story will be done. Where pupils meet up on any of the given sight
words they will raise their hands.
They will then discuss their favorite part of the story and say why it’s their favorite part.
Group Work 25min
Group 1

Will sequence sentence to retell story

Group 2

Will insert correct words to completegiven sentencese.g maroons,
Accompong, fighting

Accompong was far away.

Group 3

Will place words related to key concept in alphabetical order e.g;
Fought
Tommy__________Mountains
Maroons
_________
Clarendon

Accompong
Group 4

Will rewrite sentences using the meanings of words underlined eg;
escaped, governed, plantation.
The large farm had sugar cane and bananas.
The plantation had sugar cane and bananas.

Whole Group (10 mins)
Groups will present their work for marking. Praises/corrections will be made where necessary
Evaluation:

Day 2
Objective
1.
2.
3.
4.

Identify regular past tense verbs
Add ‘ed’ to form the past tense of a given verb.
Rewrite sentences using past tense verbs.
Place ‘ed’ words into three groups.

Procedures/Activities
Whole Group 20 mins
Teacher and pupils will revise regular past tense verbs.
Pupils will bear in mind that that these words end with ‘ed’ and that ‘ed’ gives three distinct
sounds eg; a ‘t’, ed and d sound. (Pupils will say sounds)
Pupils will do entire group reading to find regular verbs in the story eg; the maroons worked for
themselves. Pupils will tell the ‘ed’ sound heard at the end of each ‘ed’ word.
Group Work (20 mins)
Group 1

will write the past tense of given words eg;
Present Tense

Past Tense

gain

gained

show
join
escape
Group 2

Will place regular past tense verb into groups according to sound eg; lived,
wanted, jumped.

`

‘T’ Sound
Jumped

Group 3

Will rewrite sentence using the past tense verbs of the verbs underlined.
Eg; The slave masters follow the slaves into the mountains.
The slave masters followed the slaves into the mountains.

Ans:
Group 4

‘Ed’ Sound
Wanted

‘D’ Sound
Lived

Will write the present tense verbs of the given past tense verbs. Eg;
Present Tense Verbs
Past Tense verbs
_______________
Laughed
_______________
Reached

Whole Group (20 mins)
Recap past tense verbs giving the three distinct sounds. The marking of pupils work will be done.

Evaluation:

Day 3
Objectives
Pupils should be able to:
1. identify, decode and define the word pronoun
2. use pronouns correctly in sentences
3. use correct pronouns to replace given nouns.

Procedure/Activities
Whole Group 25 Mins)
Lesson will be introduced with pupils reading given sentence from sentence strips. On the
sentence strips pupilswill identify the nouns that are underlined. E.g.
Tom likes Tom’s dog.
Pupils will say the number of times the noun was repeated and say what they can do to prevent
this. E.g wetake the proper noun Tom out and replace it with the pronoun .
Teacher will help pupils to understand that instead of using the noun ‘Tom’ two times, another
word can be used in the place.
Pupils will try to supply a word in the place of the second noun ‘Tom’.
Teacher will introduce the word Pronouns to pupils.
Pupils will identify and decode the word pronoun using syllabication.
The definition of pronouns will be given.
Semantic mapping will be used to show some important pronouns.
we
she

her

him

Pronouns

his

they
you
them

he

Pupils will use the following youtube linkhttps://youtu.be/ZADSyQZlvCc on their tablets to
understand the concept pronouns.
Pupils will hunt in class for hidden pronouns on cards. When pupils find the card they will try to
pronounce the word seen on the card then use the word in a sentence. e.g.
Roy lost his new bike.
Group work (20 mins)
Group 1 will underline the pronouns in given sentences.
The Arawaks had their bows and arrows.
Group 2 will match a pronoun to a noun. e.g.
Nouns

Pronouns
Children

she

John

it

Mary

they

fanhe
Group 3 will circle the correct pronoun for given pictures. E.g
Theyall have their guns..

Group 4 will rewrite given sentences using the correct pronoun.
The Maroons have the Maroons Abeng.
The Maroons have their abeng.
Whole Group (15 mins)
The concept on pronouns will be reinforced. Pupils work will be
marked and corrections/praises given where necessary.
Evaluation:

Day 4
Objectives
Pupils should be able to:
1. Use the herring bone technique to answer comprehension questions.
2. Fill out different story maps.
Procedure/Activities
Whole Group (20 mins)
Pupils will do whole group and individual reading of story.
Teacher will question pupils orally about what was read.
Pupils should be able to read specific section of the story to answer questions asked.
Group Work (25 mins)
Group 1 will read and answer questions given
1. Where does Tommy’s grandmother live?
2. Which word in the passage means the same as get away?
Group 2 will use the herring bone techniques to answer given questions eg.
Who

where

why

What

how

which

1. Who is the main character?
2. What could you do differently if you were the character?
Group 3 will use information from story to fill out a story map
Title

The soldiers

Eg.
Tommy
Grandma

Am I a maroon?
Grandma?

Yes Tommy

What was that?

Group 4 will use information to fill out the story map below
Eg.
Settings

Main Character
Tommy

Title:

Problem

Whole Group (15 mins)
Group presentations and making of work will be done.
Evaluation:

Solution