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Informationen zum Autor Jeanne H. Purcell is the consultant to the Connecticut State Department of Education for gifted and talented education. She is also director of UConn Mentor Connection, a nationally recognized summer mentorship program for talented teenagers that is part of the NEAG Center for Talent Development at the University of Connecticut. Prior to her work at the State Department of Connecticut, she was an administrator for Rocky Hill Public Schools (CT); a program specialist with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, where she worked collaboratively with other researchers on national issues related to high-achieving young people; an instructor of Teaching the Talented, a graduate-level program in gifted education; and a staff developer to school districts across the country and Canada. She has been an English teacher, community service coordinator, and teacher of the gifted, K-12, for 18 years in Connecticut school districts and has published many articles that have appeared in Educational Leadership, Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, Educational and Psychological Measurement, National Association of Secondary School Principals' Bulletin, Our Children: The National PTA Magazine, Parenting for High Potential, and Journal for the Education of the Gifted. She is active in the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and serves on the Awards Committee and the Curriculum Committee of NAGC, for which she is the co-chair for the annual Curriculum Awards Competition. Klappentext Covering history, geography, and sociology, these sample lessons and units show how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to provide rigorous learning opportunities for students in social studies. Zusammenfassung Covering history! geography! and sociology! these sample lessons and units show how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to provide rigorous learning opportunities for students in social studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Editors About the Contributors Introduction: A Brief History of the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) 1. Becoming a Geographer (Grade 6) - Heather Burke Background Information Content Framework Unit Assessments Overview of the Unit Lesson 1: Climate and Seasons Lesson 2: Investigating World Populations Lesson 3: Shop Around the Globe Lesson 4: The Culture of Geography 2. Through the Looking Glass: A Unit for Reading/Writing/Social Studies Intervention Classes (Middle School) - Dawn Vier, Lisa L. Ward Introduction to the Unit Content Framework Unit Assessments Background Information Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections Lesson 1: Introduction?"Who Am I?" Lesson 2: The Pursuit of Happiness Lesson 3: Authentic Authors Lesson 4: Sociocentrism Lesson 5: The City Lesson 6: The Great Depression Lesson 7: A Sign of the Times Lesson 8: Persuade Me! Lesson 9: Planet Earth 3. Subversion and Controversy: Sociological Considerations of Humor, a Cross-Curricular Unit in Sociology and Literature (Grades 7 and 8) - Kelly M. Dausel Background Information Content Framework Guiding Questions for Each Parallel Unit Assessments Overview of the Unit Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections Lesson 1: Introduction to Sociology and How Sociologists Think Lesson 2: Humor in Society Lesson 3: Humor in Communication Lesson 4: Sociological Research Lesson 5: Curriculum of Identity Creative Extension 4. True Story-Telling: How Historians Construct the Past, Grade 10 - Catherine Little Background Information Content Framework Unit Assessments Overview of Key Lesson Ideas/Purposes Lesson 1: Selective Memory Lesson 2: Constructing History Lesson 3: The Past Through Many Eyes Lesson 4: Who Writes History? Lesson 5: ...
