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Grade 2 History and Social Studies Week 16 | Teacher Guide

Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

WEEK 16 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 76–80

Read each lesson aloud with the child and model the worked example before practice. Do not show this key during practice. Accept oral, drawn or written answers where the child cannot yet write the whole answer. On Day 80, read aloud if needed but give no hints.

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Day 76: Choosing to Move and Being Forced to Move

Standard: SS24.2.14

Practice record: Four moves, printed on the Week 16 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: A family moves to another city because a parent has a new job there. Is this voluntary or forced migration? Worked answer: Voluntary migration.

  1. The grandmother moving near her grandchildren and the young man moving to go to college.
  2. Push: any one, such as no jobs, unfair treatment or danger. Pull: any one, such as work, freedom, school or family.
  3. In voluntary migration, people choose to move. In forced migration, people are made to leave and have no choice. Accept any answer that says one is a choice and the other is not.

Teaching note: Keep the focus on whether people had a choice. The table’s second column is filled in by the child.

Day 77: Arriving in the United States

Standard: SS24.2.14; SS24.2.14a

Practice record: Two ways people arrived, printed on the Week 16 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: In what year did Ellis Island begin receiving immigrants? Worked answer: 1892.

  1. More than 12 million. Yes, most chose to come.
  2. Forced. They were captured and brought by ship against their will.
  3. The immigrant at Ellis Island chose to come, so that was voluntary migration. The African was captured and brought by force with no choice, so that was forced migration. Accept the correct label for each with the reason of choice.

Teaching note: Alabama connection, for the teacher to share if the child is ready: in 1860, more than 50 years after the 1808 law, the ship Clotilda illegally brought 110 Africans to Mobile, Alabama. Speak plainly and without graphic detail; the point is that these people had no choice.

Day 78: Moving Within the United States

Standard: SS24.2.14; SS24.2.14a

Practice record: Two migrations within the United States, printed on the Week 16 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Where did the Cherokee people have to travel to? Worked answer: Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma.

  1. The Great Migration.
  2. Any one of: to find better jobs; to get away from unfair laws.
  3. On the Trail of Tears, the government made the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples leave, and they had no choice. In the Great Migration, families decided for themselves to move. Accept any answer that says one was forced and the other was a choice.

Teaching note: Use a map to show Alabama and Oklahoma. Speak truthfully and simply; do not add graphic detail.

Day 79: A Family or Community Move

Standard: SS24.2.14; SS24.2.14a

Practice record: A sample interview (written for this lesson), printed on the Week 16 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: On a map of a move, which way should the arrow point? Worked answer: From the old place to the new place.

  1. From Selma, Alabama, to Detroit, Michigan.
  2. Voluntary. He chose to move for a better-paying job and to be near his brother.
  3. Answers vary. Accept any comparison that names a reason from the child’s interview and a reason from Grandpa Leon’s.

Teaching note: The sample interview is written for this lesson. If a family’s move was forced or painful, let the person share only what they choose. Use the observation checklist below.

Hands-on task observation checklist (Interview someone about a move). Check each item you observe. Four or five items shows the child met the task goal; two or three means repeat the task with support.

  • ☐ Child asked where, when and why the person moved.
  • ☐ Child asked whether the move was a choice.
  • ☐ Child recorded the answers.
  • ☐ Child drew a map with an arrow from the old place to the new place.
  • ☐ Child labeled the move voluntary or forced and gave a reason.

Day 80: Independent Check: Migration

Standard: SS24.2.14; SS24.2.14a

Practice record: Four migrations, printed on the Week 16 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: What is migration? Worked answer: Moving from one place to live in another.

  1. The Africans brought to Virginia and the Trail of Tears.
  2. Any one of: better jobs; fairer treatment.
  3. Example: Immigrants at Ellis Island chose to come, but the Cherokee were made to leave their homes on the Trail of Tears and had no choice. Accept one correct example of each with the difference of choice.

Teaching note: Independent check: read aloud if needed, but give no hints.

Sources

National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument (more than 12 million immigrants through Ellis Island, 1892 to 1954) | National Park Service, 400 Years of African American History (first enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, August 1619) | National Archives DocsTeach, Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves (in force January 1, 1808) | National Archives, 13th Amendment: Abolition of Slavery (ratified December 6, 1865) | Alabama Historical Commission, Clotilda (110 people taken from Benin to Mobile in 1860, after the 1808 ban) | National Park Service, Little River Canyon: Trail of Tears (Muscogee Creek removal by 1836; Cherokee removal 1838, including from Fort Payne, Alabama) | Encyclopedia of Alabama, Creek Indian Removal | National Archives, The Great Migration (1910-1970) (about six million Black Southerners moved to the North, Midwest and West)

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