Lesson Plan Template

Pre-Planning:
OBJECTIVE CONNECTION TO ACHIEVEMENT GOAL
What will your students be able to do? How does the objective connect to your
achievement goal?

Students will be able to This Lesson

 Determine the main idea(s) of the
events during the Civil Rights
Movement.
 Summarize information from the text
 Analyze the impact of people and
events during the Civil Rights
Movement.
 Connect the themes of the Civil Rights
Movements with the selected texts.
 Utilizes a variety of assessments in
order to identify students’ need as well
as highlight student growth and
measure our student goals.
 Incorporates supports that are used to
provide targeted instruction and drive
towards meeting both growth and
absolute goals.

PREREQUISITE SKILLS DIAGNOSTIC

What will your students need to know to How will you assess students’ mastery of
master the grade-level objective? these foundational skills?
Students will need to know and understand
Students will demonstrate their learning by
 RI.1.1. Ask and answer questions
about key details in a text.  Answering text-dependent questions
 RI.1.3. Describe the connection  Having rich and authentic debates
between two individuals, events,  Drafting a newspaper article covering
ideas, or pieces of information in a the changes in public education in
text. America
 RI.1.4. Ask and answer questions to
help determine or clarify the meaning
of words and phrases in a text.
 W.1.1. Write informative/explanatory
pieces, in which they introduce the
topic they are writing about, state an
opinion, supply a reason for the
opinion, and provide some sense of
closure

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Preplanning
ASSESSMENT
How will you know whether your students have made progress toward the objective? How and
when will you assess mastery?

Student progress will be monitored by

 Formal discussions
1. Their ability to connect themes across text and tie them to their current lives
2. Their ability to respectfully agree/ disagree with a statement and provide reasoning
and evidence

 Written responses
1. Their ability to appropriately express their thoughts through writing

Students will keep considering

 How did the Civil Rights Movement change America?

 How did the Civil Rights Movement impact education in America?
 How did Civil Rights activists promote/improve civil rights, and what challenges did
they face? How did the arts imitate the times of the Civil Rights Movement?
 How does the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s/1960’s still live on today?

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Lesson Cycle
OPENING (5 min.) MATERIALS
How will you communicate what is about to happen?
How will you communicate how it will happen?
How will you communicate its importance?
How will you communicate connections to previous lessons?
How will you engage students and capture their interest?
School
Student will be asked be shown two schools pictures

Anchor Chart
 Colored school, Paxville, South Carolina, 1940s
paper

 White school, Paxville, South Carolina, 1940s

Markers
Students will then be asked to vote on which school they would rather attend
Projector
based on its exterior.

Discussion:
Which school did you choose? What is your reason for choosing that school?

“Golden Bulls, now that you have had time to vote on which school you
would rather attend I want you to think about why you choose that school”
(30 secs)

“Now that your think time is over you will have 1 minute to turn and talk to
a partner about your decision” (1 min)

Pick 3 students to share out their responses.

Based on students’ responses I will then pose general questions to the whole
group.

Do these school look to be equal?

In 1896 Brown v. Board of Education “separate but equal.” The Plessy v. Ferguson
case of 1896 upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities.
INTRODUCTION OF NEW MATERIAL (__ min.) MATERIALS
What key points will you emphasize and reiterate?
How will you ensure that students actively take in information?
How will you vary your approach to make information accessible to all students?
Which potential misunderstandings will you anticipate?
Why will students be engaged/interested?

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Lesson Cycle
Ruby Bridges
“Golden Bulls, we’ve learned about the Brown vs. Board of Education Article
Supreme Court case of 1954. Next, we will learn about a young girl named
Student
Ruby Bridges, who was a kindergarten student attending an all-white school Response
in New Orleans, Louisiana. We will learn about her school experience and Sheets
her incredible bravery”
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“In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools paper
was unconstitutional. The case was Brown v. Board of Education. By the
year 1960, however, many Southern cities, including New Orleans, were still Markers
not following the court’s ruling. That prompted a federal court to take action
in New Orleans. It ordered the city to desegregate its public schools. Ruby Projector
Bridges was one of the first students to lead the way”

Now we will have the opportunity to read about Ruby Bridges and how she
helped to change education in America.
GUIDED PRACTICE (Throughout Lesson) MATERIALS
How will you clearly state and model behavioral expectations?
How will you ensure that all students have multiple opportunities to practice?
How will you scaffold practice exercises from easy to hard?
How will you monitor and correct student performance?
Why will students be engaged/interested?

Whole Group Discussion: Ruby Bridges

Article
 How was Ruby treated on her first day at school?
 Why was she the only student in the classroom? Student
Response
 Was this treatment fair? Sheets
 If you Ruby would you return to school each day, knowing that
people did not like you because of the color of your skin? Anchor Chart
 What does they word suffering mean? paper
 Why does the author say the Ruby’s parents were suffering?
 What kinds of things can we do now in America that we could do Markers
before?
 Would you hate the people who were being mean to you? Projector
Today we are going to write a newspaper article about the changes in
education. So if I were to write a newspaper article about the changes in
education what types of things would I same would be the same? ( chart it
out) What types of things are different? (chart it out)
Now we have a great list of ideas to choose from for our articles. Now let’s
write one together.

We can all start by saying …

Education in American has change …(List 3 reasons)
However, Education in America is the same because … ( List 3 reason)

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INDEPENDENT PRACTICE ( 20 min.) MATERIALS
How will you clearly state and model behavioral expectations?
In what ways will students attempt to demonstrate independent mastery of the
objective?
How will you provide opportunities for extension?
Why will students be engaged/interested?
Today, we are going to create a newspaper story covering the changes in public Student
education in America. We have learned about Brown v. Board of Education, Response
Sheets
Thurgood Marshall, Ruby Bridges and The Little Rock Nine. These people have
shaped the educational system that we are familiar with now. Today, you will Timer
show your knowledge and understanding through writing. Just ask we did
before you will list 3 unique changes in American education and 3 unique
things that are consistent.

Give students time to write and circulate.

CLOSING (7 min.) MATERIALS

How will students summarize what they learned?
How will students be asked to state the significance of what they learned?
How will you provide all students with opportunities to demonstrate mastery of (or
progress toward) the objective?
Why will students be engaged/interested?
Have students share out their writings. Student
Response
Sheets
Jot down 3 things all students belief are still the same in American education.
Thanks for sharing out. As, you were sharing I was jotting down all the things you Anchor Chart
said were the same in Education today, I’ll share out the top 3. paper

Tomorrow we will began to draft letters to our educational leaders in our state to see Markers
if any of these can be changed because education during the Civil Rights
movement should not be the same as education today.
Also, we will began to research what education is like for students around the world,
analyze its fairness, and devise a plan of action to address the changes we want to
see.

The newspaper articles will be posted on the bulletin board outside of the
classroom.

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 References

Parker, W. C. (2012) Social studies in elementary education (14th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2015). English language arts standards. Retrieved

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy

National Council for the Social Studies. (n.d.). Curriculum standards for social studies.

Retrieved https://www.mhschool.com/socialstudies/2009/teacher/pdf/ncss.pdf

Sysadmin. “Brown v. Board of Education: Separate and Unequal Education Lesson.”

Smithsonian's History Explorer, 20 Apr. 2016, historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/brown-v-

board-education-separate-and-unequal-education-lesson.

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