TEKS Lesson Plan/Unit Plan



Focus Plan

Texarkana Independent School District

|GRADING PERIOD: |1st 6 Weeks |PLAN CODE: | |

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

|Grade(s): |10 |Time allotted for instruction: |One class period |

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|Title: |Talk like a Historian |

|Lesson TOPIC: |Using Social Studies terminology correctly |

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|TAKS Objective: |Objective 3 |

| |The student will demonstrate an understanding of economic and social influences on historical |

| |issues and events |

|FoCUS TEKS and Student Expectation: |TEKS.WH26 The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. The student is expected |

| |to: |

| |(A) use social studies terminology correctly |

|Supporting TEKS and Student Expectations: |(B) use standard grammar, spelling, sentence structure and punctuation. |

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|Concepts |Enduring Understandings/Generalizations/Principles |

| |The student will understand that |

|Analyze |Critical thinking skills are essential in analyzing social studies terminology. |

|Proofreading |Effective writers examine their work for correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. |

| |Accuracy in mechanics helps the reader hear nuances and better understand what the writer is trying to |

|Punctuation |communicate. |

| |Correct spelling is necessary for accurate meaning. |

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

A. Focus/connections/anticipatory set

1. The teacher will instruct students to record the History Facts of the Day displayed on

the overhead screen in their spiral notebook. The questions/facts will be discussed

later in the class period (TAKS question).

B. Instructional activities

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

1. Objectives: The main objective in this lesson is to demonstrate the need to communicate

correctly using verbal and written forms. The student is expected to transfer skills learned

in Language Arts using Social Studies terminology. Higher level skills are needed to

expand answers rather than merely use a few words.

2. Procedures: The teacher will use an overhead projector to display a transparency with the

following sentence:

Most historians eat agrarian salads.

The teacher will ask the students to silently read the sentence and determine if Social Studies terminology is used correctly. After approximately two minutes the teacher will explain that students must know the meaning of the words in a sentence in order to determine the correctness of Social Studies terminology. Although the words “historians” and “agrarian” are Social Studies terms the student cannot automatically assume that the terms are used correctly.

Agrarian has to do with farming or agriculture – not something you eat. Therefore, Social Studies terminology (terms) is not used correctly.

**Critical Thinking** The teacher may anticipate a student’s response that vegetables are in salads we eat and also grown on a farm. Therefore, agrarian (to the student) is correct terminology. The teacher will explain the student has to use critical thinking to analyze sentence and use the most appropriate choice. Substitute the word “agriculture” for agrarian. Most historians eat agriculture salads.

The teacher will explain the correct terminology in core subjects enables them to “speak the language” and have a better understanding of the content of the particular course of study: Example: In Math class you talk about fractions, decimals, etc., In Literature class you talk about the Author’s point of view, mood, setting, etc. So it will be this year in the student’s study of World History.

2. Modeling: The teacher will use an overhead projector to display a transparency with the following sentences:

Historians use artifacts to learn about ancient civilizations. Cave drawings indicated

Paleolithic people lived in permanent settlements.

The teacher will explain that six vocabulary terms were used, but not all were used correctly. Allow students time to identify the terms used incorrectly and explain why.

Paleolithic is the Old Stone Age. Cave drawings were drawings of animals they hunted, indicating they were nomadic people – moved from place to place following animal migration. Therefore, these people did not live in permanent settlements.

C. Guided activity or strategy

The teacher will distribute copies of the Early Civilization Terms to each student. The teacher will instruct the students to read over the list and circle the terms they can identify. The teacher will call on a student to read one term and give the definition. The student then calls on another student to use the term in a sentence. The first student will tell the class if the term was used correctly.

D. Accommodations/modifications

The list of terms will be reduced for special needs students.

E. Enrichment

II. STUDENT PERFORMANCE

A. Description

1. Students will define all the terms and then compose a paragraph using Early

Civilization terms. Students will proofread their work for correct capitalization,

punctuation, and spelling. If time permits, allow students to share their paragraphs

with the class.

B. Accommodations/modifications

Special needs students will define ten of the fifteen words.

C. Enrichment

iii. Assessment of Activities

A. Description

An informal evaluation of student work will be performed by the teacher. An in-depth

assessment will be given at the end of the Unit of Study on Early Civilizations.

B. Rubrics/grading criteria

C. Accommodations/modifications

D. Enrichment

E. Sample discussion questions

1. What resources were used to define unfamiliar words?

2. Does your paragraph include a topic sentence?

3. Are at least two supporting details included in the paragraph?

4. Was all the terminology used correctly?

IV. TAKS Preparation

A. Transition to TAKS context

Communicate in written forms using social studies terminology correctly: The teacher will

select key vocabulary terms and discuss their meaning.

Example: subsistence farming - producing almost all the goods needed, usually

with a little extra for sale

farming (agriculture – crops does not include

animals)

B. Sample TAKS questions

History Facts of the Day question (TAKS 2003,2006)

6. Mongolia is a landlocked country in north central Asia with a harsh climate and few resources.

Livestock outnumber people many times over. It can be inferred that Mongolia’s economic

system is a –

A subsistence economy based on farming

B subsistence economy based on herding

C market economy based on agriculture

D market economy based on light industry

Correct Answer: B

D is incorrect: light industry is not discussed in the paragraph.

A – C are incorrect. Farming and agriculture have the same meaning

B is correct. Livestock is not included in the answer choices., but students should know that

livestock refers to herding.

7. How Some Families Earn a Living

Family A – The entire family works for minimum wage on a pineapple plantation.

Family B – The family produces only enough food from its garden to live on.

Family C – The entire family weaves straw mats and sells them in a local market.

Family D – The family grows wheat commercially on 6,000 acres of land.

Which of the families described above is engaged in subsistence agriculture?

F Family A

G Family B

H Family C

J Family D

G – Family B is the correct answer. It defines subsistence agriculture.

V. Key Vocabulary

Agrarian, nomad, domesticate, civilization, permanent, development, food-gathering, settlement,

prehistoric, Neolithic, Paleolithic, cave drawings, subsistence farming, artifacts, revolution

VI. Resources

A. Textbook

Prentice Hall World History Connection S to Today

C. Supplementary materials

• Transparency: History Facts of the Day

• Transparency Sample Sentences Using Terms Correctly

• Transparency: Terms – Early Civilization

B. Technology

• Overhead projector

VII. follow up activities

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

The following day, students will review terms.

The teacher will introduce the study of Early Civilization using a Power Point.

VIII. Teacher Notes

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