Westside High School Lesson Plan
Tuesday
Monday
Teacher Name:
Course:
Kindred
AP U.S. History
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Period 7: 1890-1945
March 2-6, 2015
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can analyze how episodes of credit and market instability, most critically the Great
Depression, led to calls for the creation of a stronger financial regulatory system.
TEKS/AP/Standards: The continued growth and consolidation of large corporations transformed
American society and the nation’s economy, promoting urbanization and economic growth, even as
business cycle fluctuations became increasingly severe.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Prepare for Chapter 25 Notes
2. Guided Notes: Chapter 25- Students will take notes on causes of the Great Depression and
President Hoover’s response to the economic crisis.
3. Document Analysis: The Great Depression- Students will analyze documents that illustrate the
effects of the Great Depression.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Document analysis
Checks for Understanding: Class Discussion
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop, Notebook
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Finish reading Chapter 25
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can complete a snapshot assessment.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Take out a pencil
2. Snapshot Assessment
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Snapshot Assessment
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Snapshot Assessment
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Complete Chapter 24 / 25 Quiz on the HUB
Wed/Thur
Friday
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can analyze American foreign policy that used international investment, peace
treaties, and select military intervention to promote a vision of international order, even while
maintaining U.S. isolationism in the years following World War I.
TEKS/AP/Standards: The involvement of the United States in World War II, while opposed by most
Americans prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, vaulted the United States into global political and
military prominence, and transformed both American society and the relationship between the
United States and the rest of the world.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Log on to the Hub and download assignments from the Chapter 27 folder.
2. Document Analysis: Diplomacy of the 1920s- Students will analyze the Five-Power Treaty
and the Kellogg-Briand pact and how it represented American isolationism
3. Document Analysis: American Neutrality of the 1930s- Students will analyze the Neutrality
Acts, the Lend-Lease Act and FDR’s War Message to Congress (1941)
4. Snapshot Review- Students will review questions from the Snapshot Assessment
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: Document analysis
Checks for Understanding: Randomized Questioning
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptops, notebooks
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Read Chapter 26
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can analyze American foreign policy that used international investment, peace
treaties, and select military intervention to promote a vision of international order, even while
maintaining U.S. isolationism in the years following World War I.
TEKS/AP/Standards: The involvement of the United States in World War II, while opposed by most
Americans prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, vaulted the United States into global political and
military prominence, and transformed both American society and the relationship between the
United States and the rest of the world.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
1. Do Now: Log on to the HUB and download “America on the Sidelines” from the Chapter 27
folder
2. America on the Sidelines Interactive Timeline- Students will explore America’s neutrality prior
to U.S. entry to World War II.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods: America on the Sidelines Chart
Checks for Understanding: Class discussion
What do I need to be successful?
Materials: Laptop
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Finish Reading Chapter 26 and begin reading Chapter 27