WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
SAS and Understanding By Design Template
Name McClinchie
Date 3.26. 2012
Length of Lesson 1 more weekContent Area United States History
STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC:WWII The instability created in
Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the
stage for another international conflict–World War
II–which broke out two decades later and would
prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an
economically and politically unstable Germany,
Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party)
rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties
with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of
world domination. Hitler's invasion of Poland in
September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to
declare war on Germany, and World War II had
begun. Over the next six years, the conflict would
take more lives and destroy more land and
property around the globe than any previous war.
Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed
were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi
concentration camps as part of Hitler's diabolical
"Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust.
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand: ,The modern world is still
living with the consequences of World War 2, the
most titanic conflict in history. 70 years ago on
September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland without
warning sparking the start of World War Two. By the
evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at
war with Germany and within a week, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and South Africa had also joined the
war. The world had been plunged into its second
world war in 25 years. Six long and bloody years of
total war, fought over many thousand of square
kilometres followed. From the Hedgerows of
Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the icy
mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of
Libya, the insect infested jungles of Burma to the coral
reefed islands of the pacific. On land, sea and in the
air, Poles fought Germans, Italians fought Americans
and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict which
was finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons.
World War 2 involved every major world power in a
war for global domination and at its end, more than 60
million people had lost their lives and most of Europe
and large parts of Asia lay in ruins.
BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content, objectives and skill
focus)
Historical context is needed to comprehend time and space.
Historical interpretation involves an analysis of cause and
result.
Perspective helps to define the attributes of historical
comprehension.
The history of the Commonwealth continues to influence
Pennsylvanians today, and has impacted the United States and the
rest of the world.
The history of the United States continues to influence its
citizens and has impacted the rest of the world.
World History continues to influence Pennsylvanians, citizens
of the United States and individuals throughout the world today.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What role do mulitiple
causations play in describing a historic event?
VOCABULARY: Atlantic Wall, Allies, AEF,
airborne, armada, Anderson shelter, Anzio,
Auschwitz
Bombardment, beaches, Britain, battleship, Bailey
bridge, barrage balloon, Blitzkrieg
Churchill, courage, Canadians, camaraderie,
Chennault, civil defense, Coral Sea
D-Day, DUKW, DD tank, Dunkirk, Doolittle, de
Gaulle
English Channel, Eisenhower, ETO, Enigma, El
Alamein
Foxhole, fortification, flame-thrower, flak, Flying
Tigers, Free French
Gold Beach, glider, Germans, G.I., Grumman,
Guadalcanal, Guam
Higgins boat, hedgehog, hedgerow, home front,
helmet, Halsey, Hiroshima,
Invasion, incoming, Iwo Jima, island hopping, Italy
Juno Beach, jump zone, June 6th, jeep
Kriegsmarine, K-ration, kamikaze, Kursk
Landing craft, Luftwaffe, land mine, lend-lease,
Leyte, Los Alamos, London
Mulberry harbor, Montgomery, medic,
minesweeper, Manhattan Project, Midway,
Moscow
Normandy, Navy, New Orleans, Nagasaki, Nimitz,
North Africa, Nuremberg Trials
Overlord, Omaha, Order of the Day, OSS,
Okinawa
Paratrooper, Pointe-du-Hoc, Panzer, pillbox, Paris,
Patton, Pearl Harbor, PTO
Quisling, Quebec Conference, queasy, quiet, quick
Rommel, radar, Roosevelt, Rangers, rationing,
Resistance
Sabotage, SHAEF, submarine, Sword Beach,
Seabees, Stalin, Second Front
Teamwork, tank, Tarawa, Tito, Tojo, Tokyo,
Truman
Utah Beach, U-boat, uniform, Ultra, USO
Victory, V-1 rocket, V-mail
World War II, Wake Island, WAC, WAVES, war
bonds
X-ray, XX Committee, X-craft
Yalta Conference, Yank, Yamamoto
Zero, Operation Zeppelin,
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK:Students are expected to
demonstrate his or her understanding of the WWI
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL
MATERIALS AND
STUDENT OBJECTIVES
(COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
Students will be able to:
Learning about the past and its different contexts
shaped by social, cultural and politcal influences
allows students to gain an understanding of the
country they live in…
OTHER EVIDENCE:Students will continually be
evaluated based on their: participation, behavior,
through formative and summative assessment,
discussion, and peer interaction.
INTERVENTIONS:
ASSIGNMENTS:
PROCEDURES:
(Active Engagement,
Explicit Instruction,
Metacognition,
Modeling, Scaffolding)
Students will be given an
opportunity to revise his
or she work, if :they
regualry attend and
participate in class,
behave in an appropriate
manner, and turn the
assignment in on time.
Students will participate
in active discussions with
his or her peers.
Students will take notes
via lecture and
independent reading.
Students will answer
direct and indirect
questions posed by the
instructor and the
students.
MINI LESSON:
Warm-up/ Induction
Brief lecture
Independent or Small
group work
Large group discussion
Closure
Analyzing eight elements
of culture and five
themes of geography,
reading maps.
RESOURCES:
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The instructor will
encourage students to
participate in "think,
pair, share."
The instructor will use
the Socratic Method to
assessment student
progress.
The instructor will
provide feedback for all
written assignments.
The instructor will
demonstrate
metacognition for his
students.
The instructor will
modify the difficulty of a
given assignment based
on the student's
individual needs.
Worksheets, projects
and short answer
writing assignments,
current events
assignments, quizzes
and unit test.