edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Central Focus:

Reading and Language Arts Main Idea and Supporting Details/ Civil War
Integrated Social Studies
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and
explain how it is supported by key details; Date submitted: Date taught:
summarize the text 3/20/17 3/29/17
4.E.1 Understand how a market economy
impacts life in North Carolina.
Daily Lesson Objective:
Students will be able to read a passage find the main idea and list the supporting details. Students
will work individually at their tables to read pages 8 and 9 from Voices of the Civil War by Susan
Brocker and then complete the graphic organizer attached to pages 8 and 9. Students should
complete the organizer with a 80% or higher. (20 points per correctly completed organizer box)

21st Century Skills: Academic Language Demand (Language Function

Assess and Evaluate Information and Vocabulary):
Analyze
Vocabulary demand: Abolitionists-a person who
worked to end slavery in the United States
Prior Knowledge:
Students will have the basic understanding of the Civil War. Students will have gone over main idea
and supporting details before.

Activity Description

Who can tell me what they have learned about the Civil War so
far in class?
Great!
Who can tell me what a main idea is? ( Important information
1. Focus and Review that tells you the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a
10 points text.)
Who can tell me what supporting details are? ( Supporting
details explain, describe, expand, and illustrate the main idea.)

Today we are going to read a couple short passages about the

Civil War and then we are going to use a graphic organizer to
2. Statement of Objective help up arrange the main idea and supporting details.
for Student
10 points We will do the first one together and then you will
independently read a short passage and then fill out your own
organizer.
 Together we will read pages 2 and 3 from Voices of the Civil
War. We will then talk about and fill out the graphic organizer
stating the main idea and then going back and finding details
to support the main idea.
(Possible Main Idea: The differences between the North and the
3. Teacher Input
South caused the Civil War. The differences between the
10 points
North and The South caused the country to divide.)
(Possible Supporting Details: The South was rural and
depended on slave labor/ the North was based on trade and
industry. Southerners needed slaves/ Northerns fought to end
slavery.
Students will read passage on the worksheet and determine the
4. Guided Practice main idea on their own. Students will find one supporting detail
10 points for their main idea. We will then go over what the main idea
could be and share some supporting details.
Students will work independently to finish the supporting details
5. Independent Practice
on the worksheet. Once completed they will write a short
10 points
summary of the passage on the back of the paper.
6. Assessment Methods of
Students will be assessed through asking questions during the
all objectives/skills:
lesson and through the worksheet.
10 points
7. Closure We will discuss as a class new information that they might have
10 points learned about the Civil War through reading these passages.
This section is not completed unless the lesson plan has
been implemented.
Measure how well students were able to achieve the
performance/criteria from the daily lesson objective.
What percentage of your students achieved mastery (as
8. Assessment Results of outlined in your criteria)?
all objectives/skills:
Based on student performance, what strengths do
10 points
students exhibit in regards to the expected performance
(as outlined in the daily lesson objective)?
For students who did not achieve mastery, what kinds of
errors did they make?

Targeted Students Student/Small Group

Modifications/Accommodations Modifications/Accommodations
4 points 4 points

Time accommodations will be provided.
Larger print text can also be provided.
Materials/Technology:
1 point
Students who are struggling can work in small
group and collaborate.
Early finishers can draw a picture that captures
the main idea.

Worksheet and pencil, doc cam, white board.

CT signature: ________________________ Date: ______ US signature:
___________________Date: ____

Reflection:

This was not my original intent for a social studies lesson. I unfortunately didnt get to teach a
specific social studies lesson due to the counties schedule and because I had to leave for a funeral in
the middle of IMB. In the future I would teach this lesson more focused on the historical aspects of the
Civil War and the impact that it had on North Carolina specifically. I ended up having to integrate
social studies into my reading and language arts lesson which was fine but I would have liked to have
gone into further detail about the Civil War. I would have also liked more time to complete my lesson.
The time I was allowed to teach my lesson made it so I had to shorten my lesson so I couldnt get to
everything that was in the lesson plan. If I had the time to complete my full lesson I would have
covered some of the suggestions on my feedback form.
I feel like the strengths of this lesson were that I was really passionate about the topic that I
was teaching. I love talking about the Civil War and I love reading about it. I am minoring in childrens
literature so being able to use a piece of literature to teach a subject I loved made me keep the
students motivated in learning. I also feel like I worked the room well and was able to help students
individually when they needed it.
Some of the weaknesses of the lesson come from what I mentioned previously. I did not have
enough time to complete every part of the lesson plan. I also would have liked to talk more about the
Civil War and not just the main idea of the Civil War text.
I learned that sometimes you need to modify and improvise lessons based on what is going on
that day. I learned that students are passionate about learning what you are passionate about
teaching. From this experience I learned that students will come up with different answers but multiple
answers could be correct. All students are different and learn differently so it makes teaching
interesting. I feel that as a teacher you need to constantly need to stay on your toes to modify for your
students needs.