TEKS Lesson Plan/Unit Plan



Focus Plan

Texarkana Independent School District

|GRADING PERIOD: |1st 6 Weeks |PLAN CODE: |SS10.2.1 |

|writer: |Bates |Course/subject: |World History |

|Grade(s): |10 |Time allotted for instruction: |2 days |

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|Title: |Then There Were Three |

|Lesson TOPIC: |Peer grouping to research and role play contributions of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle |

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|TAKS Objective: |Objective 3. Demonstrate an understanding of economic and social |

| |influences on historical issues and events. |

|FoCUS TEKS and Student Expectation: |WH20 The student understands the relationship between the arts and |

| |the times during which they were created. The student is |

| |expected to: |

| |(B) analyze examples of how art, architecture, literature, |

| |music, and drama reflect the history of cultures in which |

| |they are produced. |

|Supporting TEKS and Student Expectations: | |

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|Concepts |Enduring Understandings/Generalizations/Principles |

| |The student will understand that |

|Compare/contrast |comparing and contrasting provides the ability to identify how Socrates, Plato and Aristotle’s |

| |philosophies were alike and/or different. |

|Main Idea |the main idea is the ability to distinguish the general idea of a passage from its supporting details. |

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[pic]I. Sequence of Activities (Instructional Strategies)

A. Focus/connections/anticipatory set

The teacher will use an overhead projector to display: TAKS Daily Practice

Transparency 5.4 (The Glory that was Greece).

The teacher will instruct students to write only the correct answer for question 1. The student

will write the question and answer for question 2. They are to be recorded in the students’ History

Facts of the Day spiral notebook as number 16 and 17 respectively.

B. Instructional activities

(demonstrations, lectures, examples, hands-on experiences, role play, active learning experience, art, music, modeling, discussion, reading, listening, viewing,

etc.)

1. Objective: Peer groups will research the philosophies shared by Socrates, Plato and

Aristotle then prepare a skit of their respective philosopher for class

presentation.

2. Procedures: The teacher will play Prentice Hall Listening to Music CD #6: Greek

Music.

3. Modeling: The teacher will state: “This CD introduced the two most important

patterns of notes in ancient Greek music played on a modern harp. The

sound of the harp is similar to the sound of a kithara, the foremost

instrument of ancient Greece.”

The teacher will remind students that music is one element of a society’s

culture. (review meaning of culture: way of life of a society that is

handed down from one generation to the next by learning and

experience)

According to some historians, Greek achievements in the arts

represented the height of human development in the western world.

One poet referred to it as “the glory that was Greece”. Today we will

focus on another element of culture – more specifically the philosophies

of three Greek thinkers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

C. Guided activity or strategy

The teacher will divide the class into three sections: Section 1 will research Socrates,

Section 2 will research Plato and Section 3 will research Aristotle.

The research will include:

• a brief biography

• at least one major accomplishment of the individual

• significance of the individual

D. Accommodations/modifications

E. Enrichment

II. STUDENT PERFORMANCE

A. Description

Students will use Handout 1 as a guideline.

B. Accommodations/modifications

C. Enrichment

iii. Assessment of Activities

A. Description

B. Rubrics/grading criteria

See Handout 2 for the grading criteria.

C. Accommodations/modifications

D. Enrichment

E. Sample discussion questions

1. What two things did the Greek thinkers or philosophers use to find causes of

what happened? (reason and observation)

2. Is logic still used today to solve problems? Why or why not?

3. How did the Athenians use rhetoric? (to advance their careers)

4. What significance did the Greek philosophers’ achievements play in Greek history?

(They set standards for future generations.)

IV. TAKS Preparation

A. Transition to TAKS context

The teacher will identify comparing and contrasting as skills needed to identify how different

ideas and historical figures are alike and/or different. In researching the three individuals:

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, students will discover their likenesses and their differences. One

likeness is their nationality. They were all born in Greece. One difference is two of them wrote

books and one wrote no books.

The teacher will state, “Another critical thinking skill is identifying the main idea.” The

student is able to distinguish the general idea of a passage from its supporting details.

B. Sample TAKS questions

The teacher will use an overhead projector to display: TAKS Daily Practice 5.4 The

Glory That Was Greece.

Question 1. TAKS 8.30(F), WH25(C) – Comparing and Contrasting

Question 2. TAKS WH25(C) Finding the Main Idea

V. Key Vocabulary

logic, rhetoric, philosophers

VI. Resources

A. Textbook (World History Connections To Today) pages 115-119

B. Supplementary materials

Listening to Music CD (World History Connections To Today)

Handout 1: Peer Biography Research Procedure

Handout 2: Greek Philosopher Biography Rubric

TAKS Daily Transparencies (World History Connections To Today)

Prentice Hall Presentation Pro

C. Technology

CD player

Computer

Overhead projector

VII. follow up activities

(reteaching, cross-curricular support, technology activities, next lesson in sequence, etc.)

Students will present skits to the class the following day.

To conclude the lesson, the teacher will insert Presentation Pro CD into a computer,

Select Lesson #5 and present the slide show (1-4) as a review of Chapter 5 – Ancient

Greece.

Item #5 will be the topic of next week’s lessons on Alexander and the Hellenistic Age.

VIII. Teacher Notes

The teacher will preview the music CD and the slide show CD prior to class.

The teacher will also preview the color transparency to be used as the History Facts of the

Day.

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