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1. SOCIAL STUDIES
I TERM
PLEA
Type of text: Expositive Format: Continuous
Sources:
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/mesopotamia/
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/ancient-egypt/
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/ancient-china/
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/indus-valley-civilization/
Topic: The influence of metals on ancient
civilizations
Comprehension goal: What characterized the emergence of the
earliest civilizations?
Reading level: Literal, inferential
Reading strategies:
Before the reading:
1. Reading goal: What am I going to read for?
2. Prior knowledge activation: What do I know about the topic?
During the reading:
1. Select important information: What can I select that is part of the topic?
2. Using the structural strategy: how can I represent the information?
After the reading:
1. Ask and reflect: What did I understand? Did I achieve the reading goal?
Readind skills: Learning evidence:
 Recover explicit information in the content
of the text.
 Selects prompt information about what, who, when, where,
why and how of the text.
 Selects relevant information about the text.
Multidisciplinary evidences.
 Identify economic, politic and cultural factors that have generated the Ancient Civilizations of Asia and Africa.
BEFORE:
Our reading objective will be to read the following text to recognize the main features from the Ancient Civilizations
of Asia and Africa. Let´s activate previous knowledge: see the video TRAITS OF CIVILIZATION -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2exRx5QMRU and after participate in the Padlet, put a sticker and mention the
nine (9) features of an Ancient Civilization. It is mandatory that you write your name and lastname in the sticker. Based
in the exercise you can ask yourself: what do I know about the topic?

2. DURING:
1. Let´s learn about one specific aspect of one Ancient Civilization of Asia or Africa, look the assigned topic in the list.
2. Check the source or others from the assigned topic. These are the recommended sources:
Mesopotamia https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/mesopotamia/
Egypt https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/ancient-egypt/
China https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/ancient-china/
India https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/indus-valley-civilization/
Select the important information: What can I suppress? What can I keep? This is relevant for the activity you are
about to start.
3. Now we are going to use the structural strategy: create an infographic about the assigned topic. Use the available
tools:
 https://www.canva.com/
 https://www.genial.ly/
 https://www.easel.ly/
 another of your interest or by hand
Remember to be creative and polished, follow the example. With this topic in mind, select the relevant information that
will allow you to develop the infographic.
4. Post the activity in the respective forum.
AFTER:
Once you publish your work, let´s Ask and reflect: What did I understand? Did I achieve the reading goal? Participate
trough the chat answering in a short way to these questions; finally, you can vote for your favorite infographic in the
forum with the button REPLY.