WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
SAS and Understanding By Design Template
Name Matt Rodrigues Date 03 September 12 Length of Lesson Week Content Area Humanities
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STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC:The Great peoples and Cultures of Mesopotamia
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand: The essentials of the
Summerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and their great contributions to the western world.
VOCABULARY: Epic, Ziggurat, Commendable and the words of the week.
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: How do these ancient peoples affect us and western culture still today?.
STUDENT OBJECTIVES
(COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
Students will be able to: draw conclusions about cases of historical events and their overall effects on the developemnet of western Civilization.
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK:Presentation about
Mesopotamian peoples
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS:
#1. Pre-Assessment
#2. Open Ended Questions
#3. Brief in Class Writing Promp
#4. Choose assessments:
Others:

STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND
PROCEDURES:
(Active Engagement,
RESOURCES:
Explicit Instruction,
Metacognition,
Modeling, Scaffolding)
Lecture
Discussion
Textbooks
Notes
Presnetation scaffolding
Active engagements
MINI LESSON:
9/4 - presentations
9/5 - presentations
9/6 - Epic of Gilgamesh
9/7 Quiz about
Mesopotamian cultures.
INTERVENTIONS:
As needed
ASSIGNMENTS:
Read the Epic of
Gilgamesh