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Name: Taylor S. Quick Lesson #: 1 Lesson Title: The American Flag!

Grade Level/Subject: 3rd Grade/Social Studies, Reading & Language Arts Topic: Symbolism of the American Flag NCES/CCSS Standard and Objective (1) NCES 3.H.2.1 Explain change over time through historical narratives. (events, people and places) 3.C&G.2 Understand how citizens participate in their communities. CCSS CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Objective The student will be able to explain what the American flag looks like and what the stars and stripes stand for. The student will be able to independently create their own personal flag to show how they will contribute to society and engage in society with a positive character. They will write a paragraph, or draw pictures to explain the symbolism on their flag. The students will be able to show comprehension of a paragraph by answering questions, and highlighting text to support their answers in the paragraph. Revised Blooms level of thinking/type of knowledge (1) 1. Remember 2. Understand 2.4 Summarizing 2.6 Comparing 6. Create After reading and discussing The First American Flag, students will contribute to a class chart that lists examples of how they engage and contribute as citizens to the school or community. They will create their own flag to represent their values and characteristics. After they have created their flag, they will provide a 5 sentence paragraph, or draw pictures, identifying the symbolism of their flag, and how it represents
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Behavioral Objective (2)

Objective Rationale (1)

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills (1) Key Terms and Vocabulary (1)

good character. It is important for students to learn about the American Flag, so that they can gain an understanding of why it is important for a country to have their own flag. They will gain a better understanding of symbolism, and learn why it is important to exemplify good character in society. Students will need to have good comprehension and listening skills. They will need to have an idea of what the American Flag is, and have had seen it before. Symbol, Value, Freedom, Congress, Proof, Constitution, Colonies Content and Strategies Instructional Strategies Create a chart, Prompt students with questions.

Focus/Review (prepares students for the lesson) (2)

Objective as stated for students (helps students set their own goals for the lesson) (1)

Teacher Input (provides the content to students in a teacher-directed manner) (3)

Today, we are going to focus on the importance of the American Flag! Can someone raise their hand and name a fact about the American Flag? Do you think that the American flag is important? I need you to pay attention as I read a book called, The First American Flag. Listen closely, because I am going to be asking you questions, and later we will read a passage and answer questions together. Then you will get to create your own flag, and write a paragraph about it. Before we get into the book, lets create a chart together. One side of our chart will list what it mean to be a good citizen, and the other side will give examples of what it means to be a not so good citizen. For example, I show good citizenship by volunteering at school (fill out the good citizen side before doing the not-so-good citizen side). Raise your hands to help me list more examples of a good citizen. Now we have to fill out the other side of our chart. Let see.A not-so-good citizen does not like to help others. What else can we say about a bad citizen? Great job class! We are now ready for our story. We are going to learn why the American Flag is important, and what it symbolizes. I am going to read a book called, The First American Flag, and then we will read a passage to answer 5 questions about the American Flag. We have to make sure that when we choose our answers, that we highlight where we got our answer from. Later, you will get to create your own flag that represents how you will contribute to society using good character, but you must include 5 sentences about it, or draw pictures that explain your flag. Lets get ready for the story; all eyes and ears opened, Prompt students and mouths zipped closed *Begin introducing the title with questions and author, and begin reading. Pause to ask questions for to check for comprehension frequently.* Did you learn facts about the comprehension American Flag? The Colonists wanted their own country, while reading but what else did they want? As states were added to the the story. country, what was added to the flag? How many stars does the flag have? Was this flag flown during World War II? So the flag was flown to represent the winning of very important wars that were fought by the United States of America, and when the flag was flown people knew that the United States won. What do you think would have happened if there was never a flag? (People
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Guided Practice (scaffolded practice with the content; helps students make sense of the content provided in Teacher Input) (3)

would have been worried about whether we won the war, and they may not have known how many states we have. So now, we are going to read a passage, and then answer 5 questions together. May I have a volunteer to read the first paragraph? May I have a volunteer to read the second paragraph? Thank you readers. Now boys and girls, lets get to the first question. *Read each question and then ask for the students to raise their hands to answer. Ask them to find supportive information from the text to show how they found the answer. Highlight the info that they read from the paragraph.* Great job class!

Allow students to refer to the text to support their answers.

Independent Practice (application activities to help students use and demonstrate what they have learned) (2)

Closure (provides a wrap-up for the lesson) (1)

Evaluation (How will you assess students learning so that you can determine if they met the objective of the lesson?) (2)

Now we are ready to create our own flags! You have to use the sheet of paper that was passed out to you, and you may use crayons, markers, or coloring pencils. Please color your flag. Your flag should use symbols that represent you, and how you show good character at school, home, or in the community. When would you want your flag flown? After you are finished drawing, I would like for you to write 5 sentences about your flag, or you may draw pictures to explain the symbols in your flag. Explain why you chose your colors, and symbols. You may write it on a separate sheet of paper. Make sure that you put your name on your drawing and on the paper with your sentences/pictures. I think that we learned a lot today! After creating our citizen chart, reading our story, answering questions about the importance of the flag, creating our own, and writing about how it is important to us, we learned about the symbolism of the American Flag. Can anyone name an important symbol of the American flag? Do you feel like you got to create a flag that is important to how you are a good citizen? Good! We have learned that the American flag brings us together to be good citizens. So we are going to continue to be good citizens in Ms. Hosmers class, at home, and in the community right? Good job today class! Formative: I will use the novel as a comprehension assessment to see how well they answer, and ask questions. The citizen chart will also help me realize their understanding of right from wrong. Creating the flags will allow creativity while they reflect on how they contribute to being a good citizen. Having the students write/draw about their flags will give me the full understanding of how well they understand that flags can be used to symbolize good character. Summative: The flag 5 sentence paragraph/pictures will allow me to understand if the students understand the objective. I will make sure that the students and I fulfill the standard by guiding them through questions that prepare them for independent activity.
Three points: Students clearly and correctly described the American flag and the American values it symbolizes; created unique and colorful flags that clearly represented their good character; and created thoughtful paragraphs/pictures describing their flags and what they symbolize. Two points: Students adequately described the American flag
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and were able to identify a few American values it symbolizes; created somewhat unique and colorful flags that mostly represented their good character; and created somewhat thoughtful paragraphs/pictures describing their flags and what they symbolize. One point: Students were unable to describe the American flag and the values it symbolizes; created incomplete flags that did not represent their good character; and created incomplete paragraphs/pictures that did not adequately describe their flags and what they symbolize.

Plans for Individual Differences (differentiations needed for students) (1)

Allow more time for students to work on independent activity, by letting them take it home to finish it. Grade the students, who are not as advanced, based on individual goals and class participation. Change the performance criteria for advanced students so that they provide more evidence in their journals. Since this is an ESL class, the students may draw pictures that explain the symbolism of their own flag instead of writing a 5-sentence paragraph.

Materials used in the lesson; Resources used in developing the lesson (1)

Novel, The First American Flag by Kathy Allen Worksheet http://www.education.com/files/239301_239400/239305/historyof-american-flag.pdf Critical thinking occurs where the students have to think to answer questions about the American Flag. Creativity occurs where the students have to create their own flag to represent how they show good character. Discussing the history of the American Flag will allow them to become globally aware of how to be a good person in society. Creating symbolism for their own flag will help them get an understanding of the importance of their culture.

21st Century Skills (must be in three lessons)

Global Awareness (must be in two lessons) Culturally Responsive Teaching (must be in three lessons) Overall alignment in the lesson (2): The behavioral objective must be aligned to the lesson objectives (NCES/CCSS). The instructional activities must help students meet the behavioral objective and be successful on the lesson assessment. The lesson assessment must provide enough reliable and valid data so the teacher can determine if each student has met the lesson objectives or not.

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Cooperating Teacher Lesson Feedback Form Note: A complete lesson plan should be provided by the teacher candidate prior to observation. To be completed by the teacher candidate prior to observation Preservice Teacher: Date: March 17, 2013 Time: 2:30 PM Observer: Elizabeth Hosmer School: Morehead STEM Academy Grade: 3rd Grade

1. What are your goals and objectives for this lesson? The student will be able to explain what the American flag looks like and what the stars and stripes stand for. The student will be able to independently create their own personal flag to show how they will contribute to society and engage in society with a positive character. They will write a paragraph, or draw pictures to explain the symbolism on their flag. The students will be able to show comprehension of a paragraph by answering questions, and highlighting text to support their answers in the paragraph.

2. What are some specific things you would like observed? I would like for the observer to notice if I successfully taught the objective, by giving activities that were on topic to the concept. I would also like for the observer to observe my classroom management skills.

To be completed by the Observer: 3. Strengths to continue to build on: Connecting students to the text Praising good behavior Positive reinforcements

4. Suggestions for future lessons: Make sure everyone is clear on behavioral as well as academic expectations. Challenge students to ask Why is this symbol meaningful to you? Critical thinking questions

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