DIRECT INSTRUCTION LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

DATE 3/6/17 Week #8

Teachers: Joseph Arms Subject: U.S. History Grade:11

Common Core State Standards Concept 7 PO 3. Analyze events which caused a transformation of the United
States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:
f. World War I (e.g., League of Nations, Isolationism)
Objective (Explicit): students will be able to explain how the end of the war affect the world and how it
would lead to more wars
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
Assign value to each portion of the response
Students will have to explain how the peace talks ultimately would lead to more war. They must use evidence from their
notes to show that they can use evidence to prove their point. At least two different examples.
Sub-Objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex) Formative Assessments:
How will you review past learning and make connections to previous
lessons?
What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson
objective?
How is this objective relative to students, their lives, and/or the real
world?
list wilsons 14 points
describe the peace talks
Key vocabulary: wilsons 14 points, treaty of Materials: powerpoint, note packet,
Versailles 1919
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life) How
will you activate student interest?
How will you connect to past learning?
How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?
How do we achieve world peace

How will you model/explain/demonstrate all knowledge/skills What will students be doing to actively capture and process the new
required of the objective? material?
What types of visuals will you use? How will students be engaged?
How will you address misunderstandings or common student
errors?
How will you check for understanding?
How will you explain and model behavioral expectations? Is
Instruc tional
there enough detail inInput
this section so that another person could
teach it?
Teacher Will: start with the what American where doing Student Will:
on the homefront

Financing the war

Raising money
Taxes
Bonds

Enforce loyalty
Fear of foreigners
Hate the hun
Repression of civil liberties
Political radicals
 Changing peoples lives
African American
Women

Peace talks
Wilsons 14 points

Paris peace conference

Wilson ignored
Vengeance
Penalties for Germany

League of Nations

Redrawing Europe
Germany
Russia
Astria-Hungry
Ottomans

Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students? Do
you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
Students that have a hard time taking notes can have a copy of the teacher notes

How will you ensure that all students have multiple opportunities to
practice new content and skills?
What types of questions can you ask students as you are
observing them practice?
How/when will you check for understanding?
How will you provide guidance to all students as they practice?
How will you explain and model behavioral expectations? Is
there enough detail in this section so that another person could
facilitate this practice?
How will students practice all knowledge/skills required of the objective,
with your support, such that they continue to internalize the
subobjectives?
How will students be engaged?
How will you elicit student-to-student interaction?
How are students practicing in ways that align to independent practice?

if there is time at the end of class have a Student Will: discuss how to safeguard peace at the end of
Teacher Will:
discussion on world peace and how these peace war and ask question about how all of this affects us today
conference brought more war to the world for years to
come
Practice
Have students think about modern issues like the
middle east or Crimea
Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
Guided
How can you utilize grouping strategies?
 How will you plan to coach and correct during this practice?
How will you provide opportunities for remediation and extension?
How will you clearly state and model academic and behavioral
expectations?
Did you provide enough detail so that another person could
facilitate the practice?
How will students independently practice the knowledge and skills
required by the objective?
How will students be engaged?
How are students practicing in ways that align to assessment?
How are students using self-assessment to guide their own learning?
How are you supporting students giving feedback to one another?

Teacher Will: allow students work on their packet Student Will: work on their packet until the end of class

Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students? Do
you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Students that struggle with reading will be given a much easier reading that summarizes what the scopes trial was
Independent Practice
about.
Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:
How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
Why will students be engaged?
Ask students again how do we achieve world peace, in case some have changed their minds