Mount Dora Middle School Lesson Plans
Mr. Deutsch, 7th Grade Civics
Week/Date(s):
2012 August 20 - 24
Topic:
Origins and Purposes of Law & Government
Annually Assessed Benchmark
Additional Benchmarks:
SS.7.C.1.1 Recognize how Enlightenment ideas including Montesquieu view of separation of powers and John Locke’s theories related to natural law and
how Locke’s social contract influenced the Founding Fathers. (TWRF)
LA.7.1.7.1, LA.7.1.7.3, LA.7.1.6.1, LA.7.1.6.2,
LA.7.1.6.3
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Students will identify and describe
the Enlightenment ideas of
separation of powers, natural law,
and social contract by relating the
concepts to their everyday lives.
Thursday
Students will examine how
Enlightenment ideas influenced the
Founders’ beliefs about individual
liberties and government by
discussing how the students’
influences in life have shaped them.
Friday
Students will evaluate the influence
of Montesquieu and Locke’s ideas
on the Founding Fathers by sorting
the Founders Library to where they
have influenced our Constitution.
Measurable
Objective
Students will explore their civics
teacher and the environment of the
classroom by interviewing their
teacher and each other.
Vocabulary
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procedures
natural rights
social contract
founding fathers
natural rights
social contract
enlightenment
separation of powers
natural laws
abolish
sovereign
banish
tyranny
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Essential
Question
How would you summarize your
responsibilities in this class?
How would you summarize civics?
How do the concepts of separation of
powers, natural law, and the social
contract affect your daily life?
How do your surrounding change
how you act and think?
How did the influences of the
founding fathers shape our country’s
constitution?
Bell Ringer
一 Paper Boxing
一 Paper Boxing
一 Compound Vocabulary (Cont’d)
一 Paper Boxing
一 Founders Library Sort (Cont’d)
Agenda and
二 Room 2-203
三 Who Am I? Interview
四 Who Are You? Interview
二 Putting On A Shirt
三 Classroom Rules vs Procedures
二 Enlightenment
二 Influence in your Life
三 The Constitutional Convention
四 Founders Library Sort
二 Tracing the Influence (USA)
四 Compound Vocabulary
三 From Enlightenment to America
Compound Vocabulary – Natural,
Rights, Social, Contract
None this evening
Ticket Out
Investigational
Activity
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Who Are You? Interview Completed
and Signed
Students will recognize the
differences between procedures and
rules by putting on a shirt.
ESOL Strategies
Continually monitor student’s comprehension
Use preview/review activities
Simplify your speech by making it slower and redundant
Reinforce the key ideas you present again and again
Integrate speaking, listening, reading and writing activities
Give enough wait time for LEP students to respond to questions
De-emphasize speed and emphasize accuracy of work
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三 Tracing the Influence (US)
None this evening again
Test Monday.
ESE Modifications
Make comparisons between the new concept and things students already know.
Use mnemonics to help students remember multiple steps in a procedure.
Model the steps in the strategy, using a think-aloud process.
Use multiple reviews of concepts and skills.
Give students specific feedback about what they are doing well or need to change.
Give students enough practice to master skills.