{
"week": 19,
"day": "Tuesday",
"topic": "Food and the Three Sisters",
"subtitle": "Growing, Hunting, and Gathering",
"icon": "🌽",
"pages": [
{
"title": "🌽 Food and the Three Sisters",
"sections": [
{
"type": "reading",
"title": "Reading Time",
"icon": "📖",
"paragraphs": [
"How did Native nations get their food? Three main ways: growing, hunting, and gathering.",
"Many nations were expert farmers. Their most famous crops were the <strong>Three Sisters</strong>: corn, beans, and squash, planted together in one mound! The corn grew tall, the beans climbed the corn like a ladder, and the big squash leaves shaded the ground to keep it moist. The three plants helped each other grow — brilliant!",
"Nations also hunted deer and buffalo, fished rivers and seas, and <strong>gathered</strong> wild foods like berries, nuts, and wild rice. Nothing was wasted, and people gave thanks for every meal."
]
},
{
"type": "questions",
"title": "Reading Questions",
"icon": "✏️",
"questions": [
{"text": "What are the Three Sisters?", "lines": "single"},
{"text": "How did the three plants help each other?", "lines": "triple"},
{"text": "What does 'gathering' mean?", "lines": "single"},
{"text": "Name two wild foods people gathered.", "lines": "single"}
]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "vocab_grid",
"title": "Vocabulary Grid",
"icon": "📝",
"instruction": "Write what each word means in your own words.",
"words": ["Three Sisters", "crop", "gather", "hunt", "squash", "wild rice"]
},
{
"type": "fill_blank",
"title": "Fill in the Blanks",
"icon": "✏️",
"wordbank": ["corn", "beans", "squash", "ladder", "shade", "thanks"],
"items": [
"The tall sister was ______________.",
"The ______________ climbed the corn like a ladder.",
"Big ______________ leaves kept the ground moist.",
"The beans used the corn as a ______________.",
"Squash leaves gave ______________ to the soil.",
"People gave ______________ for every meal."
]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "true_false",
"title": "True or False",
"icon": "✏️",
"instruction": "Write T for true or F for false in each circle.",
"items": [
"The Three Sisters are corn, beans, and squash.",
"The three plants hurt each other's growth.",
"Some nations gathered wild rice and berries.",
"Food was often wasted.",
"Beans climbed the corn stalks.",
"Nations got food by growing, hunting, and gathering."
]
},
{
"type": "draw_grid",
"title": "Draw the Three Sisters",
"icon": "🎨",
"instruction": "Draw a Three Sisters mound: tall corn in the middle, beans winding up the stalk, and wide squash leaves all around the bottom.",
"boxes": 1
},
{
"type": "review_table",
"title": "Review",
"icon": "📊",
"header": ["I learned...", "Circle one"],
"rows": [
["What the Three Sisters are", "YES / NOT YET"],
["How the plants help each other", "YES / NOT YET"],
["The three ways nations got food", "YES / NOT YET"]
]
}
]
}
]
}