Lesson Plan Template

Subject
American History

Topic & Concept(s)

Civil rights

Standards:

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Grade: 9th

Choices have consequences.

Individuals have rights and responsibilities.
Societies are shaped by beliefs, ideas, and diversity.
Societies experience continuity and change over time.
Relationships between people, places, ideas, and environment are dynamic.

NETS Standards:
http://www.iste.org/standards/ISTE-standards/standards-for-students
Content Objectives:

1. Beyond the famous leaders of the Civil Rights

Movement, ordinary men and women struggled
for their beliefs.
2. The students should understand what civil
rights every person should have.
3. The students will learn that segregation and
racism are things that are not and should not be
tolerated.

Language
Objectives: The students will be able to read
the information presented to them, and read
the instructions when present with an activity
to do.

Assessment Plan:
(Formative and/or
Summative)

The students will create their own list of civil rights that they believe every person should have. This will be a
formal formative assessment to show if they have learned what civil rights every person deserves.

Vocabulary
Civil Rights, discrimination, hate crime, martyr,
poll tax, segregation.

Integration of
Literacy:
Reading
Writing
Listening
Speaking
Viewing
Visual
Representation

Reading: The students will read the other

students ideas for what civil rights all people
should have.
Writing: The students will write what civil
rights they believe that everyone should
have.
Listening: The students should listen to me
as I present the information regarding civil
rights.
Viewing: The students will watch and play
the smart board activities.
Visual: The students will be looking at
pictures included in the smartboard activity.

Materials/
Technology:

Smartboard, ipads, projector, powerpoint, computer, google classroom, google docs, document camera.

Differentiation:

I will differentiate via process when I use different methods to present the information needed. I.E. video,
smartboard activity, powerpoint presentation, document of MLK speech.

Introduction:

I will start the lesson off telling the students that we will be discussing civil rights and I will be asking
students what they know about civil rights. Toady we are going to talk about civil rights and the civil rights
movement in America in the 1950s and 1960s, so what do you guys know about the civil rights movement?
I will ask for multiple people to share something they may know about the civil rights movement.
I will be showing a zaption video about civil rights to give the students some knowledge of the civil rights
movement.
http://www.zaption.com/tours/56422ed845d691031b08a79f
Alright very good now we are going to watch a quick video about the civil rights movement to give you all
some background knowledge of this time period. During the video there are a couple of stopping points one
about the Plessy vs. ferguson and I will explain that, that is the case that maintain racial segregation. And the
other stopping point is about the Jim Crow Laws and I will explain that these laws and they made African
Americans basically second class citizens.

Anticipatory Set:
(Background
knowledge)

Lesson Procedure (The following three categories occur simultaneously)

Instruction

Modeling

Checking for Understanding

1. I will be starting off the class time by asking the

students questions about the civil rights movement.

1. I will be modeling the first question of the

smartboard activity so that they understand what
they need to be doing.

1. At the beginning of the class I will ask questions

about the civil rights movement to gather what
general knowledge the students have.

2. I will also model a civil right I believe everyone

should have when they are starting their assignment.

2. After the smartboard activity I will have a class

discussion about what they learned and what they
thought about the civil rights movement and this will
give me knowledge of what they learned.

2. I will start the kids on the smart board activity and

let the participate and play the games on the
smartboard.
3. After playing the smart board games I will have a
class discussion about what they learned and what
they think about the civil rights movement.
4. After the class discussion I will have the students
take out their Ipads and create a google doc and write
down what they believe are civil rights that they
believe everyone should have.
5. I will use the document camera to show them a
primary source of a Martin Luther King jr. speech.

Guided Practice
I will guide the students in the
smartboard activity to make sure they
know what they will need to do.

Independent Practice: The students will

create a google doc explaining what civil
rights they believe everyone should
have. This will be homework if it is not
finished in class and it must be shared in
google classroom so that all the other
students can see what they thought and

3.

3. For the class discussion I will bring the class back

together. I will first ask the students for an example of
something they think is a civil right that everyone
should have. I will then prompt a discussion between
the students asking the class if they disagree or agree
with these ideas and asking them to explain why or
why they dont agree.

so that they can see what they other

students thought.
Closure: For my closure I will bring the
class back together and ask for a few
ideas from the assignment and then I
will let them know that it is homework
if it is not finished yet and that they
should submit the assignment in google
classroom and look at some of their
classmates assignments.

Self Reflection:
Technology - Philosophy of Education
In the field of education it is my goal to
adapt the classroom and my teaching to
prepare the students for the future.
Technology is changing and advancing
everyday and that affects the way we do
almost everything in our lives today. It is
my responsibility to provide the students
the knowledge and skills to live and
succeed in a technologically dominant
world. The world is now revolving around
technology and every field of profession
today and it is my job to make sure the
students have the ability to compete for
these jobs. With technology becoming so
dominant in our lives it is my job to make
sure students are informed and
understanding not only of technology but

of how to use technology too. It is my job

to take this technology that has become so
dominant in children!s lives today and use
it to garner students interest to not only
learn about technology but to also learn
the other information and knowledge
students need to be successful. Technology
is a tool that will allow students to create
and learn in new ways that have not been
seen before. With technology students
have better ability to help each other out
outside of school. Technology can also be
used in my chosen discipline which is
history and social studies because it can
allow the classroom to connect with
classroom from other cultures from around
the world. It can give students a first hand
look at some things and help them
understand other cultures better.
Technology is a powerful tool that can
allow students to take their learning to a
whole new level.