The document provides information about two pre-Columbian cultures in Colombia: Calima and San Agustín. It discusses their periods of evolution, locations, social organization, economic activities, and handicrafts. The purpose is to help students complete a comparative chart about the key characteristics of these two cultures. Some of the details provided include that the San Agustín culture was located near the Cauca and Magdalena Rivers and had a society organized into groups led by a cacique, or chief. It also mentions their practices of growing crops, fishing, and hunting.

1. SOCIAL STUDIES
THIRD TERM
(PLEA)
NAME: _________________________GRADE: 3ABC DATE: ________TEACHER: _____________________
Type of text: narrative (Comic) Format: Discontinuous
Literature source:
Topic: Pre-Columbian cultures (Calima, San Agustín). Comprehension goal: What were the characteristics of pre-columbian
cultures Calima and San Agustin?
Reading level: Literal.
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? What type of text it will be?
During the reading:
1. Select information: What information do we have to select to complete the comparative chart?
After the reading:
1. Use a scheme: What is the scheme that can help me to compare the information?
Reading abilities: Learning evidences:
 Identifies and recovers general information and
explicit details of the content of the text
 Locates prompt information about what, who, when, where, why
and how of the text.
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 Uses encyclopedic information.  Stablishes connections between the new knowledge that the text
presents and already existing in his memory.
 Summarizes and generalizes information to
build the main idea of the text
 Paraphrases the general idea of the text.
 Recognizes the organization or the explicit
sequence of the text.
 Identifies the basic structure of the text.
Multidisciplinary evidence:
Extracts and enunciates relevant information and explicit details about the Important characters of Colombian independence
BEFORE:
Our reading objective will be to read the following text to recognize the characteristics of Pre-Columbian cultures (Calima, San Agustín).
Let´s activate previous knowledge What type of text it will be? Is it an instructive text? Is it give me the steps to prepare something?
Is it a narrative text? Is it tell me something? This text (The comic) has a continuous or discontinuous format? The information is
presented in paragraphs one next to the other, it means is it continuous? Or the information doesn’t present paragraphs but facts is
it discontinuous?
DURING
Select information: What information do we have to select to complete the comparative chart? The teacher will present the reading
in digital form.
AFTER
Use a scheme: What is the scheme that can help me to compare the information?

4. The history of the San
Augustin pre-Columbian
culture is divided into three
periods, during which evolution
occurs.
Formative period Recent periodRegional classic period
Formed samall villages
They started the crop
harvest
The population grew and they
built statues

5. I am really
happy to be part
of the San
Agustin family.
Our locations is
the best near to
the Cauca and
Magdalena River.
The culture of San Agustin, whose heritage us a beautiful stones
sculptures, can be admired in Colombia within the department of Huila.
The houses were built with wooden columns with a
circular floor covered with mud and straw.
We are growing
corn, fruits, and
vegetables
We are fishing
for our
community
We hunt
animals to have
meet to eat.
Thanks to the different
climates, this population
had a number of diverse
resources.

6. I am the cacique,
the chief of the
tribe.
The Augustinian society was organized into
“Cacicazgos” and the power was held by the
Cacique.
The main adornments used by
the San Agustin culture were
the necklaces, bracelets and
nose rings made of stone, shells
and gold.

7. PRE-COLUMBIAN CUTURES CALIMA AND SAN AGUSTIN
(PLEA)
QUESTIONS CALIMA SAN AGUSTIN
What were their period of evolution?
Where was their location?
How was conform their society?
What were their economic activities?
What were their handicrafts?