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The National Guard:
Modern Minutemen
SUMMARY The book gives the historical
background that led to the creation of the
National Guard The author also discusses
the twentieth-century activities of the U.S
National Guard, including civil rights
protection, riot protection, disaster relief,
and international defense
LESSON VOCABULARY
citizen-soldiers defending
mobilize National Guard
volunteer
INTRODUCE THE BOOK
INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR Discuss
with students the title and the author of
The National Guard: Modern Minutemen Ask
them to think about what the book will be
about Discuss why countries feel the need
to protect themselves Ask: If you were going
to establish a new nation, what need for
protection do you think your country would
have? What kind of dangers might exist?
BUILD BACKGROUND Discuss what students
know about Colonial times Ask: Why did
people need to be ready to fight at any time?
Discuss what students know about today’s
National Guard Ask: What are some activities
the National Guard are involved in?
PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES Have students
look at the cover illustration and the
subtitles Ask: What do you think this book
will be mostly about? Invite them to look at
the illustrations in the reader Ask: Which
illustrations give you the most information?
Encourage them to study the time line on
pages 20–21 Ask: What information on the
time line is most unfamiliar to you? Which
information are you most surprised to see?
READ THE BOOK
SET PURPOSE Encourage students to set
a purpose for reading that will help them remember what they have read Suggest that
as they read they take notes on the most important ideas Remind students that writing down the dates of historical events will help them keep the sequence of events organized
STRATEGY SUPPORT: GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS Ask
students what kinds of graphic organizers might be most useful in putting the events from historical narratives into chronological
order (time lines or sequence charts)
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
PAGE 3 What question might you ask about the
Minutemen before reading this page? (Why
were they called Minutemen?)
PAGE 5 Who are the people who served as the
Minutemen? (They were farmers.)
PAGE 6 What was the earliest evidence of
a group of fighting volunteers in the United
States? (The earliest group was the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company, which was formed in 1638 in Boston.)
PAGE 20 What is the main idea on page 20?
(Women now serve in combat as well as in other positions in the National Guard.)
PAGE 20 What is a detail on page 20 that
supports the main idea? (The rules were
changed in 1967 to allow women to serve in roles besides nursing.)
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SEQUENCE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
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TEACH/REVIEW VOCABULARY
Define the term National Guard for students
Describe how the National Guard is, and is not, like the other United States armed forces Discuss possible synonyms for the term Discuss possible synonyms for the rest of the vocabulary words Explain how each synonym is either close to, or exactly like, each vocabulary word
Using clothing as props, act out the role of a person taking off his or her every-day farmer’s coat or hat and donning a mili-tary type of coat or hat Discuss the concept
of being a citizen-soldier Ask: Do you think
you would have been interested in being a citizen-soldier during Colonial times? Why or why not? Show some pictures of National Guards doing a variety of different tasks
Ask: Was there an organization like the National Guard in your home country?
TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY
SEQUENCE Remind students that we put events or ideas in sequence so that we can better understand what we have read by knowing the order in which events happen
Discuss the sequence of events in America that led to the formation of the National Guard
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS To put historical
events in order, students might use a numbered list or a graphic organizer such
as a time line or sequence chart
ADDITIONAL SKILL INSTRUCTION
MAIN IDEA AND DETAILS Remind students that we look for the main idea in order to understand the most important idea that the author wishes to convey Then we look for details to support the main idea Discuss with students what the main idea of page 3 might be Ask them for a detail that
supports the main idea of the page
REVISIT THE BOOK
READER RESPONSE
1 Possible responses: World War I (1917);
World War ll (1941); Korean War (1950);
Gulf War (1991); Iraq War (2003)
2 Possible responses: How does one join the
National Guard? How long do people serve?
the Internet
3 defend, defended, defending; mobilize,
mobilized, mobilizing
4 Possible response: Maine was part of
Massachusetts
EXTEND UNDERSTANDING Suggest that students
review the illustration of a recruiting poster on
page 9 Discuss why governments use
recruit-ing posters Ask: What words on this poster
encourage someone to become a soldier?
RESPONSE OPTIONS
WRITING Encourage students to write a few
paragraphs about why they think people
decide to join the National Guard Ask them
to write about whether they would want to join
the National Guard
SOCIAL STUDIES
CONNECTION
Suggest to students
that they may wish to
go to the library to do additional
research on the Minutemen Ask: What
questions do you have about the Minutemen
that were not answered by this book?
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• Sequence refers to the order of events in both fiction and nonfiction
• Sequence can also refer to the steps in a process
Directions Put the following events into sequence.
• The National Guard protected the civil rights of people who fought for integration of schools.
• The volunteer militia made up much of the army during the American Revolution.
• A colonial volunteer group set up the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638.
• After the Civil War, many states renamed their militias to be called the National Guard.
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Directions Draw lines from the left column to the right column to show the order in which these
events occurred
in Massachusetts
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Vocabulary
Directions Write each word in the appropriate column to show whether it is a noun or a verb
Use a dictionary if necessary
Check the Words You Know
citizen-soldiers National Guard steed
defending relief troops
mobilize riot volunteers
Directions Use each vocabulary word in a sentence that shows its meaning.
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