DIRECT INSTRUCTION LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

DATE 4/6/17 Week #13

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

Common Core State Standards: concept 8 PO 1. Describe causes and consequences of the Great
Depression:
a. economic causes of the Depression (e.g., economic policies of 1920s, investment patterns and stock
market crash)
b. Dust Bowl (e.g., environmental damage, internal migration)
c. effects on society (e.g., fragmentation of families, Hoovervilles, unemployment, business failure,
breadlines)
d. changes in expectations of government (e.g., New Deal programs)

Objective (Explicit): students will create a graphic organizer connecting the causes to the Great
Depression and the Effects that happened because of the Great Depression
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 explain how each connection they make, makes sense, showing how each event leads to or is connected
to each other. Some events maybe both causes and effects while other may branch of into several more events and it is
up to the students to decide where everything goes in their graphic organizer.
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?
Identify what is a cause and what is an effect of the great depression
Order the causes and effects of the great depression
Key vocabulary: Materials: work sheet with the list of the causes and
effects of the great depression
Blank paper, markers, color pencils
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?
None this is a big assignment and students will need plenty of time to work on it.

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: explain the directions: Student Will: read
the directions to the assignment with the
Students will be in pairs for this assignment teacher and ask questions if they need clarification.
Students will have to create some sort of graphic
organizer, up to them.
Explain that what is getting graded is their
 explanations as to why they organized the events as
they did

Show the teacher example of how the organizer

could look.

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?

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?

Teacher Will: Student Will:

Practice

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 students independently practice the knowledge and skills
How will you provide opportunities for remediation and extension? required by the objective?
How will you clearly state and model academic and behavioral How will students be engaged?
expectations? How are students practicing in ways that align to assessment?
Did you provide enough detail so that another person could How are students using self-assessment to guide their own learning?
facilitate the practice? How are you supporting students giving feedback to one another?

Indepe ndent
Teacher Will: walk around the class monitoring
Practice Student Will: organize
the list of causes and effects and
students and helping out students that are having make a graphic organizer with a partner showing what are
trouble. causes of the Great Depression and what are effects of the
depression

Write why they make each connection/ how does each

event lead to another
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 comprehending large amounts of information or organizing a large amount of
information may be given a smaller amount of terms as needed
Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:
How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
Why will students be engaged?
None this is a review for the unit summarizing all they have learned over the past couple of weeks.