Summary
Before Your Trip
During Your Trip
- Students will enjoy visiting a place they have already learned so much about.
After Your Trip
- Follow up your visit with the literature from Lesson 3
California State
Content Standards
Grade 2
Reading 1.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, Language Conventions 1.0
Grade 3
Reading 1.0, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, Language Conventions 1.0, History Social Science 3.3
Grade 4
Reading 1.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, Language Conventions 1.0, History Social Science 4.1
Grade 5
Reading 1.0, 2.3, 2.4, Language Conventions 1.0
These lesson ideas support the social studies standards for 3rd and 4th grade. Emphasizing reading comprehension and fluency, these lessons support state reading standards in all grades.
The Hidden Villa valley is connected to many of the defining moments in our local and state history, including the life of the Ohlone Native Americans, the Spanish Missionaries, and the Gold Rush. Later in history, Josephine and Frank Duveneck were involved with some of the social justice struggles of 20th century California. Students' connections to Hidden Villa, then, can be used as a way to engage in a critical study of past and present.
Lesson 1: Hidden Villa Readers' Theater
Lesson 2: Reciprocal Teaching- A Short History of Hidden Villa
Lesson 3: Extensions
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Hidden Villa Readers' Theater
Lesson 1: Hidden Villa Readers' Theater
Duration
1 hour
Objectives
- Students will act out Hidden Villa's history.
Materials
At the moment we can offer you a wonderful readers' theater based on one of Josephine Duveneck's own campfire stories about the history of Hidden Villa (download materials). Divide your students into groups to read and prepare their act of the the play, or spend more time reading, studying vocabulary and practicing for fluency.
Lesson 2: Reciprocal Teaching- A Short History of Hidden Villa
Lesson 2: Reciprocal Teaching- A Short History of Hidden Villa
Duration
40 minutes
Objectives
- Students continue to learn about the Duveneck family while practicing reading comprehension
Materials
Read the short history of Hidden Villa in Download Options either as a whole-class shared reading or in small groups as a reciprocal teaching activity. Then guide a class discussion about the social justices struggles in which the Duvenecks were involved.
Lesson 3: Extensions
Lesson 3: Extensions
Duration
Varying
Objectives
- Students continue to learn about the social justice movements that Hidden Villa is connected to while practicing reading comprehension
Materials
- Stories focused on the social justice movements that the Duvenecks and Hidden Villa have supported (see list on left)
You can extend this study by reading selected children's books that offer other stories and perspectives. I recommend:
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- Holocaust:
- Luba, The Angel of Bergen Belsen, by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick (Powerful picture book).
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry (Mid-level chapter book).
- Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin (Particularly engaging story of brave allies during the holocaust appropriate for older, skilled readers and thinkers).
- Japanese Concentration Camps:
- So Far From the Sea, by Eve Bunting (Picture book).
- The Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida (Picture book).
- Farm Laborers Movement
- Harvesting Hope, by Kathleen Krull (Picture book story of Cesar Chavez's life.)
- Migrant Worker: A boy from the Rio Grande Valley, by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Photo documentation, non-fiction).
- The Cicuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, by Francisco Jimenez (Chapter book memoir).
Download Materials
Lesson Materials
Lesson 1: Hidden Villa Readers' Theater
Lesson 2: A Short History of Hidden Villa
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