Sunday, October 28, 2012

"Be a Rebel" Lesson Plan


Lesson Plan 3

Teacher: Reynolds       Unit: Types of Gov’t    Date: Oct. 11-30, 2012

Be a Rebel

Description of Lesson
In this lesson students will be writing a persuasive paper about a form of government that they would like to overthrow and why they would want to overthrow that type of government. The students will have to also choose a type of government that they would like to put in place of the government that they are going to overthrow.  This lesson will be done in collaboration with the English teachers. Grading on this project will be done by both the Social Studies teacher and English teacher. The grade will be based on a 100 point scale where 50 percent of grade comes from content of the paper (graded by Social Studies) and 50 present of the grade comes from paper format and grammar (graded by English). Through this lesson students will learn how to research and write a paper. The students will also further their knowledge of the different forms of government.
 
 

 

Design Qualities of Context
Evidence
Design Qualities of Choice
Evidence
 
Content and Substance
 
ALCOS # 2
CCRS- W.7.1
CCRS- W.7.2
CCRS- W.7.5
Affirmation
 
 
Students will be able to enter essays into a Writing Contest at school.
 
Student Friendly Objective
 
* I learned how to write a persuasive essay.
*I understand the positives and negatives of the different forms of government.
* I can compare and contrast different types of government and decide what type of government will best suit my needs and the values that are important to me.
Essential Questions
·         What are the different types of government?
·         What are pros and cons of different forms of government?
·         What forms of government do you like the best? Why?
·         Why do we have Government?
Product Focus
 
 
“Be a Rebel”  Paper
Choice
Students will choose the types of governments that they would like to use in there paper.
Students will be able to use any of a variety of resources to write their paper.
Organization of Knowledge
 
Students fill out a graphic organizer that will help them follow along through the activity as well as help them create their constitution at the end of the lesson.
Affiliation
Students will have a chance to present their papers to the class.
Clear and Compelling Product Standards
Be a Rebel graphic organizer
Novelty and Variety
 
Protection from Adverse Consequences
-Ability to make choices on what they write about.
- graphic organizer provide to help students outline their papers
Authenticity
 
“Be a Rebel”
Purposeful Optional Homework
·         Advance students will research and cite 4 good sources.
·         General students will research find 3 sources.  (will cite them in class)
·         Inclusion students will read sources found in class, take notes on and, highlight key elements that they can use in their papers.
·         All students
Types of Government review game:
Differentiation
All students
·         Will have a choice in the forms of governments that they write about.
Inclusion students
·         More structure outline to follow.
·         Help finding sources in class. (less sources required)
·         Help citing and annotating sources in class.
General Students
·          Only three sources cited and annotated required.
·          Structure outline
Advanced students
·         Five annotated and cited sources required.
·         Less structured outline.
 
 

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