Group Members/Group Name: Emily Yurasek

Thematic Unit Theme/Title/Grade Level: The Civil War

Daily Lesson Plan Day/Title: The War Begins
Lesson Length: 60 minute lesson

Rationale for
Instruction
Learning
Objectives

NCSS
Theme/Next
Generation
Sunshine State
Standards/Com
mon Core
Standards
(LAFS/MAFS)

Understand the various reasons for the southern states

seceding from the Union and the reasons the Union desired to
stay together.
-The students will engage in a readers theatre act where the
states become characters who are students at a school to
understand the reasons for various states seceding from the
Union.
-Students will work together in supportive groups to practice
lines
-Students will analyze the play and connect it to actual
historical events to better understanding the beginning of the
war.
SS.5.C.3.3: Give examples of powers granted to the federal
government and those reserved for the states.
SS.5.A.1.1: Use primary and secondary sources to understand
history.
LAFS.5.L.3.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word
relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
a. Interpret figurative language, including similes and
metaphors, in context.
b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms,
adages, and proverbs.
c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g.,
synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand
each of the words.
LAFS.5.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension.
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy,
appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition
and understanding, rereading as necessary.
LAFS.5.RI.1.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining
what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from
the text.
LAFS.5.RI.1.3
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more
individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific,
or technical text based on specific information in the text.
LAFS.5.RL.1.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Student
Activities and
Procedures

Anticipatory Set:
Plays will be on each desk. Supplies scattered about the other
desk in the room.
We will go over as a class the Secession Acts of each
Confederate State
Instructional Input and Procedures:
-Students will volunteer for parts, highlight their lines and
separate into groups to rehearse (10 min).