The Teacher Guide for Important People in American History contains a total of eighteen days of instruction that are taught intermittently throughout the school year. Each day of instruction requires a total of approximately forty-five minutes. The Important People in American History domain builds students' knowledge of national holidays, figures, and events while being introduced to a variety of emerging literacy skills through child-friendly activities.
The important people taught about in this domain include:
• Native Americans
• Pilgrims
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Barack Obama
• Abraham Lincoln
• Sally Ride
• Sonia Soto Mayor
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These resources, developed by the New York State Education Department, provide standard-level scaffolding suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs) to help them meet grade-level demands. Each resource contains scaffolds at multiple levels of language acquisition and describes the linguistic demands of the standards to help ELA teachers as well as ESL/bilingual teachers scaffold content for their English learning students.