LESSON PLAN of MARIA BALTSAS – WEEK 17 What Made Non-Violence Work
CCSSR:
Writing
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.B Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions,
concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2.D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
Language CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1.A Use parallel structure.
Reading
R.CCR.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual
evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
R.CCR.2: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and
ideas.
R.CCR.10: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
This week’s Reading Materials:
Background Information / Gandhi’s Religion, Career, Early Life
Document C: “Reflections about Johannesburg”
Document D: Political Cartoon/Salting the Lion’s Tail
This week’s Resources:
Ingredients of Non-Violence
Evidence Chart/ “Reflections about Johannesburg”
Evidence Chart/ Main Ideas in the Documentary
Gandhi: Documentary Gandhi. Dir. Richard Attenborough. By John Briley and Ravi Shankar. Perf. Ben Kingsley, Candice
Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, and Rohini Hattangady. Columbia-E.M.I.-Warner
Distributors, 1982.
Cornell Notes
Focus Skill/Strategy: Finding, Incorporating and Evaluating Evidence
Focus Question: What is the evidence for Gandhi’s non-violence
Academic Vocabulary:
evidence, analyze, synthesize
ethos, pathos, logos (Honors)
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Text-Based Vocabulary:
Civil disobedience, Satyagraha, Oppression, Ashram, British, Colonialism, Imperialism
Preview, Model, Interest
Model and GUIDE
GUIDE and go
farther
ASSESS and Clarify
Fix, finish UP
Objective: SWBAT find
details for a series of main
ideas by completing Cornell
Notes after reading
background information
about Gandhi
Objective: SWBAT find
evidence based on the
Ingredients of non-violence
in the political cartoon
“Salting the Lion’s Tail”
Objective: SWBAT
analyze evidence
based on the
Ingredients of nonviolence in a
historical document
based on Gandhi
SWBAT review and
analyze key concepts
and ideas in historical
documents that made
Gandhi’s non-violent
movement work by
watching a documentary
SWBAT write a MEL-Con
paragraph that synthesizes and
analyzes evidence from the
historical documentary.
I DO: Provide students with the
Ingredients of non-violence and
anticipation guide and explain
the importance of each.
I DO :
Model marking the text:
Introduction and first body
paragraph.
I DO
I DO: Overview of objective
and essential question
I DO : Overview of evidence to support
ingredients of non-violence
YOU DO:
Find evidence to support
ingredients (main ideas) of
non-violence
YOU DO:
Revise evidence to support ingredients
of non-violence
YOU DO: Continue
synthesizing and
analyzing evidence
based on ingredients
of non-violence.
Independently
(assessment)
Independently: Revise
(assessment)
Home Learning
Activity: Attention
Getters Part II
Home Learning Activity:
Analysis of Document C
Home Learning Activity:
Read historical
documents aloud/
engage in think
aloud regarding
concepts based on
non-violence
WE DO: Find evidence
WE/YOU DO
Complete/ Discuss Anticipation
Guide.
Home Learning Activity: Analyze
the prompt
YOU DO: Synthesize and analyze
evidence based on ingredients of
non-violence.
Home Learning Activity: Revisiting
Attention Getters – Part I
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How I’ll support students needing guidance:
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Think out loud
Peer coach
Use complex text
Use graphic organizers/ Evidence
Reciprocal readers
Model
How I’ll challenge students to exceed:
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Students expand the text by analyzing
Students illustrate with captions
Synthesize ideas from historical documents
Synthesize ideas
Providing background into key ideas and
issues
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Students write—using text as mentor text
Revise
Edit
Cite evidence using sources
Generate main ideas based on chunks of
text.
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