Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Teachers: Rocky Manzanet Subject: 9th grade World History

Common Core State Standards:

 HS.H2.1 Explain multiple causes of conflict.
Objective (Explicit):
 Students will be able to identify the conflict of pirates in a colonial world.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response.
Name 3 famous pirates and understand the relationship of conflict between them and foreign governments
and/or economy. Wanted poster follows requirements for “Name of Pirate” and “Crimes.”

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

Key vocabulary: Materials:

Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
 How will you activate student interest?
 How will you connect to past learning?
 How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
 How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?
Essential Question: How did pirates affect the colonial trades of the post 16 th century
world?
Open Discussion: What do you know about Pirates?

Teacher Will: Student Will:

I will review what students already know about
trans-Atlantic slave trade. I will define the terms
piracy and who pirates are.
Help visualize the time period via video and
Instructional Input
Students will reflect upon previous knowledge revolving
around pirate culture, slave trade, and colonization.
Students will observe and take notes (visually or
physically) on new terms.

powerpoint.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
 Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Teacher Will: I will observe and correct their Student Will:

groups for accuracy. I will manage time and We will work together to make a “wanted” poster
Practice
Guided

ensure the completion of each poster for the
class’ benefit. I will have the class reflect on
what we learned and reemphasize the
significance of the pirates in this time period.
for the pirate we were given. We will work together
to meet all requirements. We will share with the
class our poster and instruct our findings.
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 Co-Teaching Strategy
 Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
 Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
 How can you utilize grouping strategies?
Teacher Will: Student Will:
I will transition into the relationship between You will discuss famous pirates and connect their
the two parties and discuss conflict through experiences to European countries.
real world examples. I will provide details to You will make observations about a chosen pirate
Independent Practice

groups about a specific pirate for them to and create a “wanted” poster about their lives
discuss in groups. affecting colonialization in small groups.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
 Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

Students know the general idea of pirates, but should now have a historical key to the time and reason
they did what they did. They will connect media presentations of pirates in a realistic place in world
conflict during the Atlantic slave trades.