Learning Experience Plan

Subject: Social Studies Grade level: 8th

Unit: History of the United States Length of LEP

(days/periods/minutes): 1 day

Topic: World War II

Content Standards: (include only standards addressed in this LEP)

8.6b: Students will examine American involvement in World War II, including the
American strategy in the Pacific and the invasion of Normandy on D-Day

Literacy Standards: (include only standards addressed in this LEP)

Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source;

provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or
opinions.
Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the
relationships between claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and
collaborations with diverse partners, building on others ideas and expressing
their own clearly and persuasively.

Learning Experience Outcomes Learning Experience Assessments

(knowledge/skills) Do Now entry slip
Students will:
Venn Diagram
Identify the main strategies used
Open discussion questions at end of
by the United States during World
class
War II in the Pacific and the
Atlantic theatres. Prompted questions during
discussion
Analyze the events of the invasion
of Normandy.
Compare and contrast the
successfulness of the strategies
used in the Atlantic versus the
Pacific.
Differentiation (What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)
Approaching On-level Beyond
Approaching students will On-level students will be Beyond students will be able
be able to recognize the able to analyze the to recognize the main
main events of the United context of the events strategies of the United
States involvement in surrounding the entry into States and identify the
World War II, as well as World War II, as well as similarities and differences
some of the strategies successfully identify between the strategies.
used against countries in similarities and differences Students will also be able to
Europe and Asia. between the strategies in fully understand the
the Pacific versus the successfulness of each

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 strategies in the Atlantic. strategy and the role it
played in the war.
Curriculum Integration (Does this lesson correlate with any other content area? Describe.)
Students will learn how to close-read primary sources as well as analyze maps,
enhancing literacy skills in other content areas such as English.

Materials/Resour Procedures/Strategies
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Do Now slip Day 1

Whiteboard Sponge Activity (activity that will be done as students enter the room to get them
into the mindset of the concept to be learned)
Maps
Students will be put in a scenario in which they will be asked
Venn Diagram how they would react to two different students arguing with
worksheets them. This will put students in the mindset of the U.S. during
Projector World War II in terms of being attacked on two different sides.

Kahoot Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about
the days lesson)

What were the causes of the U.S. entry into World War II?

How were the strategies different in the Pacific and Atlantic?

How successful were these strategies in the context of the war?

How similar were the U.S. techniques in the Pacific and Atlantic?

Activating Prior Knowledge (what information will be shared with/among

students to connect to prior knowledge/experience )

Students will fill out a Do Now slip, answering the questions:

What do you already know about U.S. involvement in WWII?

Why do you think you need different strategies in the Pacific and
Atlantic?

Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)

Begin lesson by discussing the causes of the WWII, and events

that lead to the U.S. entry. Main points of lecture will be:

I. Intro: Causes of WWII

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 II. Pacific Theatre
III. Atlantic Theatre
IV. Results

After these three points are discussed, provide students with

sample ideas about the similarities and differences between the
U.S. involvement in both areas.

Guided Practice (how students will demonstrate their grasp of new learning)

Group students together and have them work together to fill out
Venn Diagram on the Pacific and Atlantic arenas. Students must
come up with their own characteristics when filling out the Venn
Diagram as opposed to teacher-directed characteristics. Then
students will look at how successful the United States was in
both theatres of the war.

After students fill out the Venn Diagram, they will present their
findings in groups aloud and compare and contrast their
comparisons with those of other groups. This will be used as a
student-directed form of comparing similarities and differences.

Time pending, students will then participate in a quiz using

Kahoot, in which the questions are used to compare, contrast,
and categorize the specific characteristics of the Atlantic and
Pacific theatres. This will be used as a teacher-directed form of
comparing similarities and differences.

Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)

Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an

appropriate close)

Have open discussion with students/have them make predictions

by asking questions such as:

1. Why did the United States need different strategies?

2. How would the U.S. react to a similar situation today?

End the class by making a short statement on the changing

world, and how the United States must constantly evolve its
strategies. Furthermore, end on an uplifting quote about conflict
and how to solve specific situations.

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References: (e.g. Book, course packet, pg #, complete web address URL)

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