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Thematic Unit
Kristen Parrott
Ivy Tech Community College

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InTASC Standards, Description, and Rationale
STANDARD 7: Panning for Instruction
The teacher plans instructions that supports every student in meeting rigorous learning goals,
by drawing upon knowledge of content areas, curriculum, cross-disciplinary skills, and
pedagogy, as well as knowledge of learners and the community context.

Name of Artifact: Thematic Unit

Date: January 31, 2016
Course: EDUC 255: Multicultural Teaching
Brief Description: I created a thematic unit for my high school World History class. The theme
of this is A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal. Although this is a social studies class, I have
included other subjects in this unit relating to this novel. Each topic relates to an Indiana
Academic Standard.
Rationale: Standard 7 means that I understand how to plan for instruction. I also make sure that
each of my students meet their learning goals. This thematic unit shows that I know how to
provide my students with the various subjects to instill knowledge of content areas, curriculum,
as well as knowledge of learners and the community context.

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THEMATIC UNIT CHART

Science:
Music:
Create a song explaining
life in the camps,
specifically Auschwitz. Be
sure to include detials
from the book and details
from personal research.

List different health

issues that developed
in the camps. Describe
what these illnesses
are and remember to
cite your references.

Language Arts:
Summarize the walk that
Buergenthal took. What is
the walk remembered as
today? Be sure to include
details.

Theme:
High School: 11th Grade
World History
A Lucky Child
by Thomas Buergenthal

Social Studies
Describe what "final
solution" was and wh
created it. Connect this to
Buergenthal.

Art:
Mathematics:
Using the details provided
in the book and your
personal research, create a
timeline of Thomas
Buergenthal's main
lifeevents.If there are
gaps, please include the
amount of monts/years
between each event.

Imagine you are Mr.

Buergenthal in
Auschwitz. Create a
drawing that would
help you cope with
living in the camp.

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Indiana Academic Standards
Social Studies:
USH.5.5 Describe Hitlers final solution policy and explain the Allied responses to the
Holocaust and war crimes.

Language Arts:
11Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific
12.RN.2.3 individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of a text.

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