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Lesson Activism
Title

Course English Grade 9th Grade

Step 1: Lesson Rationale

Learning Goals and Focus (Quick overview of lesson focus):

Students will apply their knowledge on activism to topics within their own interests and communities.
Students will be inspired to assess the different ways they can use their own voices to create social
change within their own lives. Students will have informal conversations about their beliefs on social,
environmental, and political issues.

Lesson Objectives: SWBAT: (What students will be able to do): Clear Measurable Objective Verbs
Students will be able to define activism and it’s different forms.
Students will be able to recognize the importance of using their voices for advocacy.
Students will be able to reflect these instances of activism to their own lives.

Learning Standards: Read the Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.3
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts,
to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading
or listening.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in
groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues,
building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Essential Questions: Math Essential Questions Literacy Themes Essential Questions Social Studies
Essential Questions World Language Essential Questions

What’s the difference between the direct action taken on January 6th, 2021 and the ones we’re looking
at now? (BLM, environment, gender rights, racism)
Who are the people who promote activism?
What do they look like?
Who can be an activist?
What does activism look like in this generation?
What are the topics that seem most pressing?
What qualities, skills, circumstances, or perspectives are unique to young people?
Why is community important?
What issues do communities face?
How might the youth make their voices uniquely powerful?
What do you believe? Why?

How this lesson connects to students’ cultural, personal, and/or academic backgrounds:

This lesson connects to students’ personal backgrounds because it brings in our current political and
social climate. There has been a huge increase in involvement and knowledge surrounding activism and
the issues our country is facing. Highlighting these moments allow for students to engage in a healthy
dialogue about something they are all experiencing.

Step 2: Formative Assessment Strategies

include at least 3 checks for understanding throughout your lesson
Ways to Check for Understanding

Bellringer
Nearpod: What is activism?
Why is community important?
https://share.nearpod.com/GtVEwGRB5ab

Nearpod:
Why is community important?

4 corners
Exit Slip:
What are some issues you are in support in or critical of?
What is the best way you can stand in solidarity with something you believe in?

Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks

Time Learning Activities and description of class
procedures Learning Activities
Questions Posed: What guiding questions will
you ask students throughout the lesson?
Include assessing questions AND advancing
questions.
Assessing & Advancing Questions
Guiding Questions Examples

Bellringer:

What is activism?

Nearpod or Mindmenti; Word Wall

Define Activism

Activism:
The practice of taking direct action to
achieve political or social goals.

Present quote:
What does this quote mean?
“A dead thing can go with the stream, What does it mean to be alive and to be
but only a living thing can go against it." dead?

G.K. Chesterton Does this make you think of any instances

where you could not stay silent?

Different forms of activism:

Protests, hunger strikes, vigils, marches,

speeches, social media.

Pictures: Have students identify the topics and

different forms of activism.

Who promotes activism?

- AOC, Bernie, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou,

Martin Luther King.
- Anyone else?

Who else comes to mind?

YOUTH.
Malala, Greta, Jaden Smith, Zianna, Little Ms.
Flint

Define activist.

Activist:

a person who is very involved in

supporting a cause, especially a political
cause.
Ask:
What qualities, skills, circumstances, or
perspectives are unique to young
people?
& how might they help make their voices
uniquely powerful?
Activism on the SES:
Stop General Iron. Hunger Strike.
GE is a metal scrap facility that was
moved from Lincoln Park to the South
East Side.
SES: High asthma rates.
4 toxic polluters already there.
Home to minorities of low incomes.

General Iron will be located less than 500

feet from the neighborhood high school,
elementary school, and park.

Show personal thoughts and sentiments.

Share about SYA organization and the
youth who have taken the lead on this.
Show videos:Instagram.
Exit slip:

What are some issues you are in support in or

critical of?
 What is the best way you can stand in
solidarity with something you believe in?

Modifications and Accommodations

How will you address the needs of all learners? Make sure to include all diverse learners!
6 Ways to Tier an Assignment

I will address the needs of all learners through providing various media on examples of activism.
Photos and videos will be shown throughout the lesson. I will meet the needs of all learners by
providing a visual for the words we will be identifying. These visuals create a way for students to
associate words and phrases with vocabulary. Students will also incorporate technology by using
applications like Menti and Nearpod to anonymously participate in class discussions.

Instructional Materials, Resources, and Technology

What materials will you need in order to teach this lesson?
What materials will students need?

Activism Powerpoint:
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEZf_GM2WY/jEfLHhUXF1BoxaHinQLGRg/view#2

NearPod or Word Web: Activism

https://share.nearpod.com/GtVEwGRB5ab
https://www.menti.com/ak9ytnh6j2

South East Side: General Iron, Environmental Racism

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMAtim3ntHQ/?igshid=15jt3c0occ61h

Ways to present Visuals.