Description

Overview:

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the biographical text, Boss of the Plains. This biography relates the life of John Batterson Stetson as a hatting apprentice until he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to explore the American West. During his time with the people of the West, he invents a better hat, nicknamed "Boss of the Plains," - the first real cowboy hat.

Subject:

Arts and Humanities, U.S. History

Level:

Upper Primary

Grades:

Grade 4

Material Type:

Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author:

Laurie Carlson

Provider:

Basal Alignment Project

Provider Set:

Washoe District

Date Added:

12/31/2013