Teaching Team: Claudia Durand, Emily Pinigis, Avi

Sanchez, Rachel Grubbs

Lesson Topic/Title: Aboriginal Australia

Subject Area/Grade Level:6

Date(s): May 15th

Objectives/Standards (refer to specific TEKS):

Our objective is to teach our kids about the Aboriginal culture and recognize perspectives.
To analyze a work of text for literary devices

Essential Learnings (What do you want the students to learn about your culture?)
We want them to learn the significance of racial equality, and the history of Aboriginal colonization.

Activities:
Organize students: 5 min
1. Give students numbers that correspond to their tables.
2. Seat students in 4 groups.
Brief Intro: 2 min:
1. Give students background information about precolonial Aborigines.
Poem Dissection 15 min
1. Brief introduction, poems on desk (The Old Bloodwood)
2. Have students annotate for a specific topic (Diction,
Syntax,Metaphor/Simile, Imagery), with one group member
accompanying each group for assistance.
3. Discuss as a class, emphasize before/after colonization, symbolism
Differentiation Nation 30 mins
1. Same groups of 4-6 (Colonizers or Aborigines), two of each
2. Have students pull nameplates
3. Mr. Tierney -style Game (Students get events, and choose responses
based upon their group. 5 events
4. Reflect upon how the different groups behaved, compare with
history

How will you check for

understanding or assess
learning?
The Kahoot Game will check
for the understanding of the
Aboriginal Culture. Students
will also present their findings
to the class during the
activities.

Kahoot Game
1. What did they learn? Winner gets candy. 5 min.

Interdisciplinary Connections: (What part of your lesson involves English? What types of activities relate
to Social Studies?)
Social Studies: Differentiation game, Kahoot quiz
English: Dissection of poem

Levels of Thinking in Lesson:

Closure:

Knowledge (Remember)
Comprehension (Understand)
Application
Analysis
Evaluation (Critique)
Synthesis (Create)

Teaching Team Roles and Responsibilities: (Who will teach which aspect of the lesson? What is each
person responsible for preparing/bringing/researching/creating?)
All group members research
Claudia brings prizes
Emily introduces Aboriginal people
Rachel instructs for poem
All group members talk with students and ask questions
All group members present one event
Claudia explains history after each event
Avi introduces Kahoot