Disciplinary Unit: Lesson Plan Format

Day 4:
I. General Information:
Grade Level: 6th
Discipline: Ancient Cultures(Social Studies)
Unit Topic: The Roman Empire
Time Frame: 1 Block (78 minutes)
Text: Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Don Nardo
Other Materials: Newspaper rubric, text set resources, socratic seminar newspaper
worksheet
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/262616221996749348/
Rubric ID # 2616294
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/262616221996749348/

II. Essential Understanding/Questions:

What information is of importance in your newspaper?
Why does the information stick out to you as a Historian?
Have you specifically included information from the rubric?
III. Standards/Indicators
RH.6 8.1
Cite specific textual evidence to
support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

3. Analyze the emergence, expansion and decline of the Roman

Empire

IV. Lesson Objectives

1 Describe the major achievements of the Roman Era, such as legal,
artistic, architectural, technological, and literary
1 Explain the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire including
the social structure, significance of citizenship and the development of
political institutions
1 Summarize the factors that led to the decline of the Roman Empire

V. Evaluation/Assessment:

Assessment of Objectives
This will be done through observation. I will walk around to check on
groups and how they are coming along with their research.

VI. Procedures:
Introduction:
We will review what stuck with you today from day 3.
Teaching/Activities:
1 We will read pgs. 40-48 in the text.
2 We will go over the newspaper rubric together.
3 Students will research what articles they want to include in their
newspapers. They will fill in the metacognition thinking sheet
including their resource location. Most of the block is spent
gathering information for their articles.
Closure:
We will have a discussion on the essential questions and wrap up
what we learned for the day.
Remind students that we are going to meet at the beginning of
the block tomorrow to talk about refining our articles.