1. Topic-
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The Evolution of The African American Experience |
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2. Content-
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Today's lesson will be a mix of history, social injustice, mixed
with some reading comprehension.
I will use two key figures in history (Frederick Douglass & Martin
Luther King) to illustrate both the late Antebellum period and Civil
Rights movement.
Key Words:
Antebellum
Amendment
Discrimination
Segregation
Civil War
Session
Abolitionist |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1. Students will learn key figures, dates, and words.
2. Students will learn the underlying them, which is the importance
of education and an active participation in the greater society.
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4. Objectives-
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1. Reinforcing reading comprehension and note taking skills.
2. Working on critical thinking skills.
3. Listening skills. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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Projector
Dry Erase Board
Pen
Highlighter
Stickers
Candy
Package |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1. Students will receive a warm up assignment; four sentences based
on the two key figures.
2. Students will circle nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
3. Students will participate in a social injustice experiment. |
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B. Development-
1. After warm up, we will discuss the social experiment as a class.
2. Students will explain how they felt about the injustice.
3. The segregated students will express their feelings.
4. The students who were not discriminated against will express how
they felt about the experiment.
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C. Practice-
I will introduce our two key figures in a lecture. |
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D. Independent Practice-
1. After lecture students will individually read two passages, each
on one of the key figures.
2. Students will mark up the passage. They will circle key dates,
vocabulary, names, etc.
3. Students will then discuss the passages as a group. |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
May have to separate students into 3 groups (low rigor, medium,
and high)
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F. Checking for understanding-
Students will have to answer two questions in groups after reading
the passage.
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G. Closure-
I will take some time to reiterate the importance of education using
textual, personal, and historical content.
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