Objectives

From the March Administrator Meeting

  Content Objective: Learn how to use appropriate

instructional strategies to support English Learners in
academic reading.

  Academic Language Objective: Recognize features

of complex text in order to apply appropriate
scaffolding strategies (Principle 2: Move toward
complex texts, don’t begin with them).

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 Gibbons Chapter 5
Building Bridges to Text
  This chapter focuses on how teachers can support EL
learners in accessing the meaning of written text.

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The Creation of Political Parties
8th Grade

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Your Role as an Administrators
During the lesson I will pause and
provide time for you to reflect on what
you have seen.

You will have time to take notes and

discuss each part of the lesson as it
relates to what we’ve been reading in
Gibbon.

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  Standard
  8.3.4 – Understanding how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and
Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties
(e.g. view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy,
National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt).

  Skills
  Understanding and analyzing primary and secondary sources.
  Drawing conclusions from these sources.
  Writing a coherent argument in support of one political party and
supporting it with evidence and citations.
  Understanding and using point of view within a historical context.

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  Content Objective:
  Analyze how different perspectives led to the creation of the first
political parties in the United States.
  Understand and distinguish between those ideas and their relationship to
political parties.

  Language Objective:
  Understanding how language is structured to support an argument.
  Students will demonstrate mastery through writing an essay in which
they:
  Recognize issues
  Develop thesis and corresponding argument
  Defend their points with evidence

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The Prompt

  Who had the better ideas, Thomas

Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton?
Present three ideas and show how those
ideas are superior to the ideas of the
opposing person.

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Hamilton and Jefferson

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  You will be asked to take a position on an
issue.
  Arrange yourselves either pro or con.
  You may change sides if you hear compelling
arguments.
  Use sentence starters for debating (EL
strategy).

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 Controversial Issue
  America’s reliance on oil is responsible for
the recent environmental disaster in the Gulf
of Mexico.

Sentence Starters (EL strategy)

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 Debrief
  Questions:
  Did anyone change position during the exercise?
  Why did you choose the side you did? Anyone in
the middle?
  Would you change your position if you were a
teenager?
  What did you notice about where most people
decided to position themselves?
  Political parties form around ideas.
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Pause and Reflect

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Their background…

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Reading Recording

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Background Reading: Hamilton
Title

Vocabulary
Support

Headings

Terms in
Bold

Graphic Organizer

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Background Reading: Jefferson

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Pause and Reflect

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Poster Creation
  In groups, students create a poster based on reading
  Purpose is to represent the background and ideas of
Hamilton or Jefferson.
  The poster should include the following:
  A title with the name of their individual and topic
  Three important details representing the views of their
individual
  A visual representing the ideas/views of their individual

  Students participate in a gallery walk in which they read

the other groups’ posters to obtain information needed
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Student Handouts 3 and 4

Students fill in appropriate section of Student Handouts 3 and

4 with at least three important details.

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Gallery Walk
  When the poster is finished, have students
post them around the room.
  Students then view the poster gathering
information that they need to complete all
sections of Student Handouts 3 and 4.
  Debrief the Gallery Walk with the students
and do a quick check for understanding.

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Comparing Hamilton and Jefferson
Hamilton Jefferson
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 Differences between the First
Political Parties
Federalists Democratic-Republicans
  Leader: Alexander Hamilton   Leader: Thomas Jefferson
  Favored:   Favored:
  Rule by the wealthy class   Rule by the people
  Strong federal government   Strong state governments
  Emphasis on   Emphasis on agriculture
manufacturing   Strict interpretation of the
  Loose interpretation of the Constitution
Constitution

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Who is the Speaker?

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 Who Is The Speaker?
1. “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen
people of God…”

-Thomas Jefferson

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 How Did You Determine The
Speaker?
  Context
  Inference
  Identification of positions

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 Who is the Speaker?

In pairs complete Document 3 being certain to answer the

following :

What is the main idea of the quotation?

Who is the speaker?
How did you determine who the speaker is?

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 Who Is The Speaker?
2. “Power over a man’s subsistence is power
over his will.”

-Alexander Hamilton

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 Who Is The Speaker?
3. “I sincerely believe…that banking
establishments are more dangerous than
standing armies, and that the principle of
spending money to be paid by posterity under
the name of funding is but swindling futurity
on a large scale.”

-Thomas Jefferson

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 Who Is The Speaker?
4. “It is not by the consolidation, or
concentration of powers, but by their
distribution, that good government is
effected.”

-Thomas Jefferson

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 Who Is The Speaker?
5. “A fondness for power is implanted, in most
men, and it is natural to abuse it, when
acquired.”

-Alexander Hamilton

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 Who Is The Speaker?
6. “A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be
to us a national blessing.”

-Alexander Hamilton

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 Who Is The Speaker?
7. “Laws are made for men of ordinary
understanding and should, therefore, be
construed by the ordinary rules of common
sense.”

-Thomas Jefferson

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 Who Is The Speaker?
8. “The ancient democracies in which the people
themselves deliberated never possessed one
good feature of government. Their very
character was tyranny; their figure
deformity.”

-Alexander Hamilton

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 Who Is The Speaker?
9. “All communities divide themselves into the
few and the many. The first are the rich and
well born, the other the mass of the people…”

-Alexander Hamilton

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Pause and Reflect

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Hamilton and Jefferson

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The Prompt
  Who had the better ideas, Thomas Jefferson
or Alexander Hamilton? Present three ideas
and show how those ideas are superior to the
ideas of the opposing person.

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 Student Handout 6

  Review Student
Handout 6 with
students.
  Have them
consider the
prompt and task
at hand.
  Remind them of
key terms and
suggested
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vocabulary.
  Content Objective:
  Analyze how different perspectives led to the creation of the first
political parties in the United States.
  Understand and distinguish between those ideas and their relationship to
political parties.

  Language Objective:
  Understanding how language is structured to support an argument.
  Students will demonstrate mastery through writing an essay in which
they:
  Recognize issues
  Develop thesis and corresponding argument
  Defend their points with evidence

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Thank You

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