7th Grade Eastern Hemisphere Day 3 Lesson Plan Trojan War/Dark Ages

Goals: Mississippi Social Studies Frameworks:

Domestic Affairs 2. Understand unique features of Asian, European and African civilizations and how they have impacted the development of those civilizations (Mississippi Department of Education). c. (DOK 3)

Mississippi Department of Education (2011). Mississippi Social Studies Frameworks Seventh Grade: World History From Pre-Historic Era to the Age of Enlightenment. Retrieved from http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/docs/curriculum-and-instructionslibrary/2011-mississsippi-social-studies-framework.pdf?sfvrsn=4

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in
a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.10 By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 68 text complexity band independently and proficiently (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices).

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards, 6th-8th grade Social Studies. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RH/6-8

NCSS:
1,2, and 3. National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. (2010). The Ten Themes of Social Studies, Chapter 2. Retrieved from http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands

Objectives:

1) Tell the students about the Trojan War and have them write down important aspects so they will be able to recall and tell them (Dok 1). 2) The students will learn about literature that supports the Trojan War and read a sample.

[Cross Discipline in English]:

The students will be introduced to pieces of literature from Greek culture and told how the relate to the material being covered (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4).

Materials:
Paper, pencil, overhead projector

Resources:

A personal copy of the Odyssey of Homer:

Lattimore, Richmond. (1967). The Odyssey of Homer. New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney: HarperPerennial ModernClassics.

Black Ships before Troy: The Story of the Iliad (Rosemary Sutcliff):

Sutcliff, Rosemary. (2005). Black Ships on the Shore: The Story of the Iliad. New York, New York : Random House Childrens Books.

Textbook (Pearson Prentice Hall):

Pearson Prentice Hall. (2005). History Of Our World: The Early Ages, 171-172, 192-193.

Map of Troy and Greece:

Hirschfield, Eugene. (2012). Marxist Theory of Art: Humanity makes itself. [Web log]. Retrieved from http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3VoaueMQoeE/UDuQVD3buI/AAAAAAAAAok/3c653iUnTmM/s1600/trojan-war-map.jpg

Picture of the Trojan Horse:

Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School of Coventry. (2013). Welcome to the Ancient Greek Unit [Powerpoint slides] . ASFMS Social Studies: World History. Retrieved from http://www.mitchellteachers.org/WorldHistory/AncientGreece/Images/TrojanHorseTrans .jpg

Opening Set:
1) Take attendance. 2) Inform students that we will be discussing the first major conflict that Greece was a part of, and that a famous military tactic was used in this conflict.

Learning Tasks (Procedures):

1) Give a brief introduction with the following: Tell about Trojan War (Greece v. Troy) Rumored to have started over a woman (Helen of Sparta= Considered to possess Goddess like beauty and the daughter of Zeus. Helen was taken by Prince Paris, who was from Troy, and she becomes Helen of Troy. ) 2) Put power point up and students will copy down the information. 3) Introduce students to the literature that supports the Trojan War. 4) Have students get into groups and read the piece of literature in their textbook on pages 192-193. 5) Discuss the reading.

Closing:
1) Restate the objectives. 2) Ask if there are any questions.