14-15 Waynesville Middle School Lesson Plans
Department:8th Grade Social Studies
Name: Cody Allen
Dates: September 15th-19th
Monday
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Tuesday
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Wednesday
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Thursday
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Friday
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Chapter 4 Section 2
Chapter 4 Section 2
Chapter 4 Section 3
Chapter 4 Section 3
Chapter 4 Section 3
Engage:
Guided Notes over the Declaration of
Independence
Engage:
Quiz, Quiz, Trade: Results of the
Declaration of Independence (
Foldable)
Engage:
Group read: The Struggle For Liberty
Engage:
Engage:
Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Note Card Study:
What Obstacles did the Patriots face?
Assessment: Quiz over how the
colonies declared their independence
over Great Britain
Interactive Map
Forging a New Nation: Common Sense
Changes minds
Assessment: Think, Pair, Share over
“Common Sense Changes Minds”
Type: C
Phase:P
Type:C
Phase:P, CG
Cornell Notes
Assessment:
Interpreting Maps: Battles in the
Middle Colonies
Self Assess Questions
Type:C
Phase: D
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Chapter 4 Section 4
Chapter 4 Section 4
Chapter 4 Section 4
Engage:
Engage:
Engage:
Group Read: Online Text Book
Think, Pair, Share: Primary Source
Reading “Declaration of Sentiments”
Video: George Washington at
Yorktown
Compare and Contrast: The
Declaration of Independence and the
Declaration of Sentiments
Quiz, Quiz, Trade over Independence!
Assessment:
Self -Assessment over how the British
were finally defeated.
Assessment:
Whiteboard competition over
similarities and differences of the D.O.I
and D.O.S.
Quiz over Chapter 4 Section 4: How
America won their Independence.
Type:C
Type:C
Phase: P, CG
Hashtag thought paragraphs on how
the British were defeated
Cornell Notes
Assessment:
Sticky note questions
Forming a New Nation “ Winter at
Valley Forge”
Assessment:
“Answer your own”
Assessment:
Quiz over Obstacles the Patriots faced
Type:C
Phase: P,CG
Type:C
Phase:P
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Power Standard:
Understand how the American
Patriot’s gained their independence
from the powerful British Empire.
Engage:
Engage:
Study Guide over the Colonies and
Revolution
America Story of Us : Rebels
Assessment:
Assessment:
Quiz, Quiz, Trade
Exit Ticket – What did you learn
different from the book.
Type:C
Type:C
Phase: D
Phase: P
Type:C
Revised 8/5/2014
14-15 Waynesville Middle School Lesson Plans
Department:8th Grade Social Studies
Phase: D
Name: Cody Allen
Dates: September 15th-19th
Phase: P
Revised 8/5/2014