Teaching Team:  Lesson Topic/Title: 

Ellie Patt  Political and Religious Affairs in Tibet 

Sarah Latham    
Gilly McIntyre   
Presley Gayaut  Date(s): 
Bailey Pratt  5/18 
 
Subject Area/Grade Level: 
6-8 History/English  
Objectives/Standards (refer to specific TEKS): 
 
● use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to 
determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple meaning words; 
● summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text, demonstrating an understanding that a 
summary does not include opinions; 
● pose and answer geographic questions, including: Where is it located? Why is it there? What is 
significant about its location? How is its location related to the location of other people, places, and 
environments?; 
● identify and give examples of governments with rule by one, few, or many; 
● compare ways in which various societies such as China, Germany, India, and Russia organize 
government and how they function; and 
● infer the implicit theme of a work of fiction, distinguishing theme from the topic; 
 
Essential Learnings (What do you want the students to learn about your culture?) 
 
Where the country is and what their political and religious beliefs are; how their government interacts with 
other countries; and the teachings of the Dalai Lama and his impact. 
 
 
 
Activities:   
   
What will the students be doing? Create a step by step list  What will the teachers be doing? How will 
of activities that will appeal to a variety of learners:  you check for understanding or assess 
  learning? 
Warm-up:   
KIds fold the piece of paper that they were given into 3 and  As kids walk in Ellie will hand them a piece of 
make a name tent. Each kid will color in the country that  paper (one of 4 colors) and Gilly will give 
they think is tibet.   them a hand out of a map of the world to 
Kids split into each of 4 groups for 8 minutes each, but only  color. 
attend 3/4 of the stations.  We will then discuss the map  
  Then, based on the colors of their name tent, 
Religion:  we will split the kids into 4 groups for 4 
Discuss different excerpts from TAOH, how they relate to  different stations. 
their lives, how to figure out words you don’t know, and   
annotating for theme, distinguishing theme from topic.  Each AGS kid will teach a different station as 
  follows: 
Politics:   
Show students video clip from 7 Years in Tibet that shows the  Religion-Sarah​- will pass out copies of 
unique foreign policy and have them discuss what they think  excerpts from our book and have students 
about that and then inform them about the Dalai Lama and  read/annotate as a group. 
why Tibet is such a unique region. Students will follow lesson   
with a handout so I can make sure they are leaning   
   
Culture/food:   Politics-Presley - ​will show clip from 7YIT and 
Students will be given the poem “Losar Greeting” by Tenzin  give handout with discussion questions to go 
Tsundue, will be given basic background about the author,  over with the group. 
and will be asked to underline unfamiliar words or phrases in   
the piece and circle familiar phrases, while getting a snack of  Culture/Food-Ellie-​ will hand out food to 
Khapse, a traditional Tibetan food served during Losar.  people at stations (and people who do not 
Students will read out what they do not understand and one  end up at stations) and will explain words 
of us will lead a short group discussion where what they do  that the kids don’t understand 
not know shall be explained.   
  Geography-Gilly​ Will have 10 cards on the 
Geography:  table spread out randomly. After the kids sort 
Kids will do a card sort of pictures into a pile of what is tibet  into piles I’ll check them and tell them what 
and what is not. For tibet pile they will guess what those  each of the picture are. 
places are and then learn about what those places are.   
Floater-Bailey 
 
End with kahoot (by Bailey) to test knowledge 
with candy prizes. 
If time left, have a Q&A about high school. 
 
Interdisciplinary Connections: (What part of your lesson involves English? What types of activities relate 
to Social Studies?) 
English: 
Stations “Religion” and “Culture” will relate to analyzing literature from Tibet. 
Social Studies: 
The first map activity. 
Stations “Politics” and “Geography” will go through the significance of places and discuss the differences 
between types of governments in Asia. 
 
Levels of Thinking in Lesson:  Closure: 
  - recap on topics/themed covered 
___x__ Knowledge (Remember)    - kahoot 
__x___ Comprehension (Understand)   - Q&A about high school 
_____ Application   
__x___ 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?) 
 
1. Ellie hands kids colored paper  
2. Gilly hands kids map handout 
3. Sarah, Bailey, and Presley repeat instructions. 
4. Bailey and Sarah intro to AGS/Our topic 
5. Ellie splits people into stations 
6. Gilly is Station One: Geography: BLUE 
7. Presley is Station Two: Politics: GREEN 
8. Ellie is Station Three: Food/Culture: PURPLE 
9. Sarah is Station Four: Religion: PINK 
10. Bailey is Station “Floater”: walking around helping: WHITE 
11. After students rotate through 3 stations, Ellie passes out food to the station that didn’t get it. 
12. Bailey introduces Kahoot 
13. Sarah says there will be a prize 
14. Q&A at end if time--All students 
 
Sarah will bring all the materials because she is grounded and has no social calendar for the next month. 
Each station leader (Gilly, Ellie, Presley, Sarah) will be responsible for the handouts for their own station.