Week 5
Week 5
Week 5
Lesson Topic/Title Perspectives of Slavery Spectrum Advantages of the Confederacy and the Union Comparison Table
Lesson Intro Start them with an easy prompt: do you like The first informal assessment that I will use is a brainstorm activity. To
pickles, ask students to line up where they stand start, students will begin thinking about the lesson set’s essential
on the spectrum question, “why did the North win?” Additionally, this activity will help
students activate prior knowledge and will help me adjust the which
Helps them get use to what a spectrum is and topics need more focus. Students will come up with a list of answers, and
how the lesson is going to go. additional questions that they have about the essential question. For this
activity, I am not looking for right answers. My goal is to have students in
the correct mind space for the lesson’s activities and to gauge their
understanding of previous topics. This assessment will also be used as a
point of reflection in lesson 3’s informal assessment.
Students will come up with a list of answers, and additional questions that
Students will meet with their groups and decide they have about the essential question. For this activity, I am not looking
who their representative will be. The rest of the for right answers. My goal is to have students in the correct mind space for
students will sit in the audience and take notes. the lesson’s activities and to gauge their understanding of previous topics.
The representatives will take on the role of their This assessment will also be used as a point of reflection in lesson 3’s
historical figure and place themselves along the informal assessment.
spectrum.
Student Engagement Students will engage in a close reading of textbook excerpts and are
There will be a Canva template for them to use required to highlight compare and contrast signal words in yellow. To
that will allow them to plot each historical figure show evidence of close reading, students will also highlight key
on a digital spectrum. Each placement will have information in green. Once they have completed their close reading,
students including a 1 sentence reasoning for students will transfer the key information they highlighted onto a
why that person is placed where they are. comparison table graphic organizer. They will also use the information to
state which side had the advantage in each category.
Lesson Closure I will review the answers with the group and Students will reflect back to the first template and add to their previous
remind them that this is not the end all be all. thinking. Students will think-pair-share and I will guide discussion based
Each person’s views are nuanced, and it is not on the students’ responses.
realistic to box them into these categories.
Students will make sure that they have
something similar on their own documents, and
they will walk out knowing approximately
where these historical figures lie on the
spectrum.
Accommodations for Students are placed in heterogenous groups that Heterogenous groups for collaborations, meaningful seating chart where
ELs and SSNs are mixed in a way where ELs and SSNs have there are different levels of proficiency, sentence frames, graphic
group partners of varying proficiency.