Vocabulary Activity Planning Sheet

Directions for Full Credit: Use the vocabulary activity planning sheet to plan your strategy instruction. Please submit this
completed template to Canvas.

Name: Patrick Nobby

Strategy: Modified Word Sorts
Content Area and ELA Standards: History
Objective: Students will learn of the Latin/Greek/German roots of English leadership words and how
they have been utilized in English speaking countries.
Supplementary Links to Resources (if any):
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/monarchy#:~:text=Monarchy%20is%20an%20old%20form,from%20monarkhos
%2C%20%22monarch.%22

Vocabulary Strategy Awareness & Explanation (Purpose for selecting the strategy)
Students will utilize the activity to learn the differences between different types of leadership through
history, from despots and dictators to presidents and prime ministers.

Vocabulary Strategy Procedure-the “how-to”

The teacher will introduce the Latin/Greek roots that led to leadership-esque words in English, then
allow the students to find the words that the roots led to. This will then allow them to learn about the
different types of leadership possible in government, and give them background on where these types
came from. This will be meant for an eighth grade civics class.

Patrick Nobby

Trombley

Vocabulary Task

11/7/20
For my Vocabulary task, I will work with 8th graders on learning the specifics of government

leadership, and the origins of it’s meanings. The focus will be on different forms of government,

including democracy and monarchy. After being given assignments, students will form groups who

will then create presentations discussing their assigned form of government, it’s root words, and if

whether or not the root word gives insight into what type of government it is. Each presentation will

last at least two minutes.

There will be five groups of students, who will each be assigned to one word from the following list:

democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, theocracy.

They will use the roots of each word to find it’s English meaning, root word meaning, and government

style.

After being given one class period with their groups to research and create presentations, they will

have the next day to give the presentations. After each presentation is done, we will open the class to a

Socratic Seminar where students will discuss the following questions:

1. Which one of these is the United States closest to in government style?

2. Which one sounds the best to you?

3. In which one is the average person given the most freedom?

The homework given after this is to find three types of government other than the one listed, and then

write a paragraph on each describing how it is practiced, and where it has been used.