LESSON PLANS – SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Week of 09/29/14-10/03/14
6th grade World History-Ancient Civilizations
Learning Goal(s): Students will learn how to write an analytical essay by
going through the steps of analyzing primary documents, completing a
guided essay, and writing a rough draft.
Agenda:
Prepared by Mrs. Watkins
Objective(s): Students will analyze primary documents, take that information,
develop answers to a question, and write a five paragraph analytical essay
elaborating on those answers.
Monday
DBQ WEEK – “How Did
The Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Tuesday
DBQ WEEK – “How Did
The Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Wednesday
DBQ WEEK – “How Did
The Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Thursday
DBQ WEEK – “How Did
The Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Friday
DBQ WEEK – “How Did
The Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
I DO: Divide students
into groups. Introduce
topic, “How Did The Nile
Shape Ancient Egypt?”
Introduce term, “primary
document.”
I DO: Introduce Primary
Documents.
I DO: Introduce
Documents D-F to
students.
I DO: Introduce Guided
Essay.
I DO: Introduce Rough
Draft.
WE DO: Go through steps
of Guided Essay with
students.
WE DO: Go through steps
of Rough Draft with
students.
WE DO: Go through DBQ
packet with students.
Read Background Essay
together.
YOU DO: Students work in
groups to complete
Documents A-C. Check
answers with students.
YOU DO: Students work
on their own and
complete Guided Essay.
YOU DO: Students work
on their own with Rough
Draft.
WE DO: Go through
Documents A-C with
students.
WE DO: Go through
Documents D-F with
students.
YOU DO: Students work in
groups to complete
Documents D-F. Check
answers with students.
Final Analytical Essay
DUE by Friday, 10/10/14,
typed or neatly written.
YOU DO: Work in groups
to answer Background
Essay Questions. Check
together.
Bell Ringer:
How did the Nile River
benefit the people of
Egypt?
Name three ways the Nile
River shaped ancient
Egypt.
Make an acrostic using
the letters in NILE to
describe the Nile River.
Essential
What is the importance
Questions/Higher of primary source
Order Questions: documents?
How long is the Nile River? What was predictable
every year about the Nile
River and how did the
people of Egypt take
advantage of this?
What is the importance of What is the importance of
primary source
primary source
documents?
documents?
What is the importance of
primary source
documents?
What is the importance
of primary source
documents?
Student Product:
Students will read and
Students will complete a
Students will complete a
Students will read and
Students will read and
answer questions to
primary documents
dealing with the
question, “How Did The
Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Nile River, Shape,
Benefit, Primary
Documents, Guided
Essay, Analytical Essay
answer questions to
primary documents
dealing with the question,
“How Did The Nile Shape
Ancient Egypt?”
answer questions to
primary documents
dealing with the question,
“How Did The Nile Shape
Ancient Egypt?”
five paragraph analytical
essay that answers the
question, “How Did The
Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
five paragraph analytical
essay that answers the
question, “How Did The
Nile Shape Ancient
Egypt?”
Nile River, Shape, Benefit,
Primary Documents,
Guided Essay, Analytical
Essay
Nile River, Shape, Benefit,
Primary Documents,
Guided Essay, Analytical
Essay
Nile River, Shape, Benefit,
Primary Documents,
Guided Essay, Analytical
Essay
Nile River, Shape, Benefit,
Primary Documents,
Guided Essay, Analytical
Essay
Homework:
Write down three ways
the Nile River shaped
Ancient Egypt.
Write down three ways
the Nile River shaped
Ancient Egypt.
Write down three ways
the Nile River shaped
Ancient Egypt.
Work on DBQ Rough
Draft.
Work on DBQ Analytical
Essay.
Exit Ticket:
What is a primary source
document?
How is a primary source
Give three examples of
document different from a primary source
secondary source
documents.
document?
Why is it important to put
my thoughts down on
paper in an orderly
manner?
Name the parts of an
analytical essay.
Word Wall:
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ESE MODIFICATIONS:
Vary presentations of subject matter.
Cooperative learning.
Extra time.
Provide outlines/notes of key concepts and ideas.
Modified assignments, quizzes, and tests.
Breakdown lesson into smaller segments-“chunking.”
Specialized grading criteria.
Modified/supplementary materials.
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ELL (ESOL) MODIFICATIONS:
Context clues (gestures, expression, body language).
Multiple media to provide different stimuli
Individualized instruction/assistance.
Peer tutoring and Small Group Instruction.
Visual and audiovisual aids
Adjust or shorten assignments.
Alternative assessments.
Adapt text materials to facilitate comprehension.
Build on student’s existing knowledge.
Modify speech.
Extra time.
Specialized grading criteria.