WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN SAS and Understanding By Design Template Name McClinchie Date 1.30.12 Length of Lesson oneweekContent Area SS Edline was updated this week: My class website was updated this week: STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS LESSON TOPIC:SWBT identify the role of the United States in the new religions that are founded and new social doctrines created like Darwinism and new progressive ideals that revolutionized the big city. 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. UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS): Students will understand: How the new states were created in the west and the role the new states played in the creation of america and the role they played in the new debate on Sectionalism and how these new states are adding to the new pressure of slave verse free states. the new states have to make a decision to keep the balance in congress and how to preserve the union and maintain peace.. and how all of the above led to the war and the difficult task to the rebuilding of the United States after the Civil War. The new presidents do not have control of the big businesses and a new era forms through corruption and greed. This Gilded Age sets the scene for politcal bosses, and spoils system unlike that of Jackson… one that is more detailed and politically corrupt!!! ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What role did the new presidents have in creating a different precidency in the US? VOCABULARY: railroan boom, speculators, credit mobilier, laboring class, trade unions, industry of the south,tenements, knights of labor social gospel, darwinism, hull house,new immigrants, reformists authors":• • General Lewis Wallace wrote Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which combated the ideas and beliefs of Darwinism and reaffirmed the traditional Christian faith. • Horatio Alger was even more popular, since his rags-to-riches books told that virtue, honesty, and industry were rewarded by success, wealth, and honor. His most notable book was titled Ragged Dick. • Walt Whitman was one of the old writers who still remained active, publishing revisions of his hardy perennial: Leaves of Grass. • Emily Dickinson was a famed hermit of a poet whose poems were published after her death. • Other lesser poets included Sidney Lanier, who was oppressed by poverty and ill health. STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE PERFORMANCE TASK:socratic questioning STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES): Students will be able to: Identify how the gt was created in the newly formed US and what the new states did to help create the US and the future role in the Civil War. These new states and the un balanced Congress is going to lead to the furnace of the Civil War. With the new weak presidetns what are going to be some problems that the goverments will have monitoring the corrupt officials and steal from the government. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: #1. Pre-Assessment #2. Open Ended Questions #3. Response Cards #4. Choose assessments: Others: STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES: RESOURCES: (Active Engagement, Explicit Instruction, book, notebook, Metacognition, internet, pictures Modeling, Scaffolding) primary docusments Students will be lead in a teacher directed socratic lecture so that students have an opportunity to express thier ideas and thoughts about the issues INTERVENTIONS: ASSIGNMENTS: MINI LESSON: