Lesson Plan #4-Gr.

6 ELA
Topic-Action Heroes/Superheroes…what’s the
difference?
Lesson Description: This lesson will get students to start to think about what
action heroes are compared to Super Heroes, and learn about one action hero in
particular: Harriet Tubman

Objectives:

Knowledge: Students will learn about Assessment/Evaluation

real action heroes that fight issues in a
-listening activity
meaningful way.
Skills/Abilities: Students will write in a -writing assignment handed in(based
different format: a poem on rubric made for finished portfolio
pieces)
Affective: Students will try to see the
actions of others in another light

Materials: true false cards, ‘the last safe house’

CELS: COM, CCT, PSVS

Prerequisite Learnings: what are stereotypes

Set: WMW: what is a hero to you 5 min

-get some students to

share answers and who are
some of their heroes.
Development: -what does someone have to do to make them
a hero?

10
-divide board into 2, put headings
min
‘superheroes’ and ‘action heroes’ at the top,
next break each into similarities/differences
-get students to think in contexts of what each
does(who is the action for? Self/others, does it
solve a problem, what are the needs in the
community, is there always a right way to
solve a problem? Attitudes of
right/wrong/good/evil and the complexity of
someone )

Ask if students think
harriet tubman would be
considered a hero? Why
(rose out of circumstances,
stood up for what she
believed in, saw an
injustice, DID something)
Closure:
Professional Goals: During the reading, try to catch students attention
Read pg 20-21 of ‘the last safe house’
Tell about the time, and how the south was at
the time, how people viewed black people.
10
min
-Play Slavery Trivia Game
-when students are done, they can begin
working on their writing projects(give a
student a sheet of ideas/leave example of own
work so students can see format)
30
min
Get some students(volunteers) to share some
of their writing
.
True or false: the underground railroad was a set of train that allowed black people to get a free
ride to Canada.
True or false: Opponents of slavery allowed their homes, called stations, to be used as places
where escaped slaves were provided with food, shelter and money.
True or false: close to 300 people worked on the underground railroad. (3000)
Trueor false: stations were approximately 20 miles apart

True or false: Slaves travelled the entire journey by walking

True or false: the entire usa promoted slavery, and slaves were not free until they
reached Canada.

True or false: bounty hunters were people that found and sold slaves.

Trueof false: by the middle of the 1800’s over 50 000 slaves had used the
underground railway.

True or false: anyone who helped a slave or did not turn them into the authorities
could be put in prison.

True or False: Slaves travelled by day so that no one would know that they were
trying to escape
T
RUE
FALS
E