Life in the South

In this lesson, students will read about farms, plantations, and daily life in the South in the past.

CONTENT OBJECTIVE: I can describe farms and plantations in the South in the past.

WIDA Standards

• WIDA Standard 5 (Social Studies): Identify and describe life in different U.S. regions (explain how people lived and worked in the past).
• WIDA Standard 2 (Language Arts): Use time words (past, now, long ago) to explain ideas.
• WIDA Standard 1 (Social/Instructional): Use sentence frames to retell (e.g., “In the past, people lived on farms.”).

LANGUAGE: English