ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE 

Class   9.02   Learning Area  Humanities   Mentor   Damon Smith 

Teacher   Hannah Fox  Year Level   9   Length   10 weeks  

Date   Apr-Jul  Term   2  Year   2020 

Lesson Outlines  

  Monday (55 mins)  Tuesday (80 mins)  Thursday (75 mins)  

Week 1   Welcome back, Catching Up & Expectations for Glenunga @ Home  
Finalising Term 1 assessments - due ​Thursday  

Week 2  4/5  5/5  7/5 

     
Welcome Back, Catching Up &  Introduction to Rights & Freedoms   American Civil War  
Expectations for Glenunga @ Home     
and Glenunga @ School   Focus:​ What are Rights &  Focus: ​Impact of slavery on the 
➔ Assessment Schedule & Task  Freedoms?   American Civil War  
Sheets   Universal Declaration of Human   
  Rights   Learning activity: Close reading of 
Students to respond to a Google    text excerpts related to slavery and 
Form based on their interests and  Pre-assessment Task: Google Form    the American Civil War  
learning styles       
  Learning activity: ‘Island Task’  
Focus:​ Icebreaker Activity (This or 
That)   
Week 3  11/5  12/5  14/5 
     
Racial Segregation in the US   Racial Segregation in the US  US Civil Rights Movement 
     
Focus: ​Jim Crow Laws   Focus: ​Jim Crow Laws & the Green  Focus: ​Freedom Rides  
  Book    
Learning activity: Watch and respond    Additional focus:  
to a video, using the thinking routine -  Learning activity: Source analysis of  ● Bus Boycotts  
‘Here Now/There Then’  propaganda from the Jim Crow era.   ● Sit-Ins  
View and respond to a video on the  ● Protest Marches  
Green Book - open inquiry activity    
Learning activity: Timeline of key 
events  
Round Robin Discussion - students 
separated into 4 groups and required 
to visit each ‘station’ which focuses 
on a different key event  
 
 

Week 4  18/5  19/5  21/5 

     
US Civil Rights Movement  US Civil Rights Movement   Film Screening - Green Book  
    * Watch half of the film in class and 
Focus: ​Freedom Rides   Focus: ​Civil Rights Activists   the remainder at home (or next 
  ● Martin Luther King Jr  lesson) 
Additional focus:   ● Malcom X    
● Bus Boycotts   ● Rosa Parks   Learning Activity: Thinking Routine - 
● Sit-Ins     Think-pair-share about key ideas of 
● Protest Marches   Learning activity: Critical analysis of  the film  
  key speeches and responding to 
Learning activity: Round Robin  questions   
Discussion - student separated into 4   
 groups and required to visit each 
‘station’ which focuses on a different 
key event  
Class discussion of key events 
facilitated by students (sharing what 
was written by groups)   

Week 5  25/5  26/5  28/5 

     
(​Film Screening - Green Book​)   In-class drafting of Film Review  In-class drafting of Film Review  
     
Introduction to summative  One-on-one conferencing with  One-on-one conferencing with 
assessment task - Film Review   students   students  

Week 6  1/6  2/6  4/6 

     
In-class drafting of summative  Introduction to Indigenous Rights  Indigenous Rights (Australia)  
assessment - due at the ​end ​of the  (Australia)    
lesson     Focus​: Stolen Generations  
  Focus: ​Indigenous Rights prior to   
Learning activity: Self-assessment  1965   Learning activity: Close reading of 
and peer feedback     personal stories of Indigenous 
  Learning activity: Source analysis of  Australians impacted by the Stolen 
FILM REVIEW DUE (20%)   newspaper articles and journal  Generations  
  entries (before 1965)  

Week 7  8/6 - QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY   9/6  11/6 

   
Australian Civil Rights Movement   Australian Civil Rights Movement  
   
Focus: ​Wave Hill   Focus: ​1965 Freedom Rides  
   

Week 8   15/6   16/6  18/6 

      
Australian Civil Rights Movement   Australian Civil Rights Movement   Reconciliation  
     
Focus: ​1967 Referendum   Focus: ​Civil Rights Activists   Focus: ​The Road to ‘Sorry’  
Tent Embassy   ● Mabo    
  ● Charlie Perkins   Learning activity: Analysis of Kevin 
● Vincent Lingiari   Rudd’s apology  
 
 
 

Week 9   22/6  23/6  25/6 

     
Review Australian Civil Rights  Review Australian Civil Rights  Introduction to summative 
Movement   movement   assessment task - Socratic seminar  
 

Week 10   29/6  30/6  2/7 

     
In-class time to work on preparation  Students to engage in seminar  Reflections & Feedback  
for Socratic seminar  discussion  
SOCRATIC SEMINAR (25%)