Lesson Plan Fall 2013

Review and Context: Students have been learning about those divisions and differences between the
North and South at the brink of the Civil War.

Objective: Students shall, through this lesson and completion of the worksheet, be able to identify
correctly (90 percent of the time) the various and prominent individuals of the Civil War and their
importance.

Materials and Time Needed: Students will be using textbooks, bracket worksheets in order to perform
this lesson. This lesson will require a blocked schedule class period of 75 minutes.

Wyoming State Standards: SS11.5.1, SS11.4.1, SS11.2.2

Procedure: Students shall receive 5 minutes of direction. Then, they shall have 15 minutes of individual
work, filling out their brackets as to who was, in their eyes the most important figure in their Civil War.
They will base their conclusions off of their studies in the textbooks. This will encourage students to
think critically and competitively to successfully fill out their worksheet. In this, they shall be more apt to
comprehend those important figures and know them better. The class will then attempt to fill out a class
bracket in a democratic process. Those who disagree with who the majority of the class thinks should
advance in the brackets will have the opportunity to argue their case to the class, with use of facts and
evidence from the text to back their disagreements. Then a secondary vote shall be held to determine
who the class believes should advance in the brackets.

Assessment: Students shall be assessed in either vocalization of their opinions or based on their filled
out bracket sheets and rationale that they include. This allows for those students who are not so
inclined to speak aloud in class to have an easy way to perform and still receive an adequate grade.
Students must fill out 100 percent of the bracket worksheet to receive credit. Those more vocal students
shall have the same amount of points granted in their participation.