Narración de sucesos del pasado y del presente.

Plan de clase

PLANNING: NARRATION OF PAST AND PRESENT EVENTS (GRADE 4 – PRIMARY)
DURATION: 1 SESSION (45 MINUTES)
METHOD: COMMUNITY PROJECT
FOCUS: CRITICAL THINKING & CULTURAL APPROPRIATION THROUGH READING AND WRITING
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH: ADDRESSING A COMMUNITY ISSUE

GENERAL PURPOSE (PDA):
Students will establish causal and temporal relationships between events by narrating community-related events from the past and present, promoting critical reflection through reading and writing activities.

COMMUNITY ISSUE TO ADDRESS:
“How has our community responded to environmental changes over time?”

SESSION TITLE:
Telling Our Story: Understanding Our Community Through Time

DIDACTIC SEQUENCE – SESSION OF 45 MINUTES

STAGE 1 – WARM-UP (5 MINUTES)
Objective: Activate prior knowledge and connect personal experience to the topic.

Activity:
The teacher shows two pictures: one representing the community 10 years ago (e.g., a clean river, many trees), and one showing its current state (e.g., polluted river, fewer trees).
Ask students:
“What do you observe in the pictures?”
“What changed?”
“Why do you think these changes happened?”

Emphasis is placed on temporal markers (before/now) and causal reasoning (“because of…”).

STAGE 2 – EXPLORATION OF NARRATIVES (10 MINUTES)
Objective: Understand how to use time expressions and cause-effect relationships in storytelling.

Activity:
Read aloud a short narrative written in first person from the perspective of a community elder. The story includes time markers (e.g., “Ten years ago”, “At that time”, “Later”, “Now”), and cause-effect linkers (“because”, “so”, “as a result”).

Discussion:
What events happ