Student Teaching Example

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In this lesson, I presented the lesson information to students in the form of a PowerPoint. Each student was given a set of notes that corresponded with the PowerPoint and were required to fill in the blanks with the words in red. This allowed them a textual basis of information that they could later refer to when completing class work or studying for a test. The images accompaning each slide gave students an idea of who and what was being discussed in the lecture. I verbally discussed each photograph and polticial cartoon with the students in order to further illustrate the causes of certain events as well as how people of the period felt about them.

Lesson Plan

Name: Keisha Stoots

Subject: US History II

Virginia SOL: USII.5a Start time: 10:00

Date: March 10, 2015

Grade: 7th

Stop time: 11:35

Lesson Title: Results of the Spanish American War and American Imperialism

Objectives (What do you want students to know, understand, do, or feel as a result of your instruction?)

1. The student will explore the outcome of the Spanish-American War and the treaty of Paris

2. The student will describe the impact of American Imperialism on Alaska, Hawaii, and the Boxer Rebellion

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Critical vocabulary: Treaty of Paris

Boxer Rebellion

Teller Amendment Platt Amendment Imperialism

Materials/resources: Document handouts, note outlines, video on Imperialism

Intro (how do you capture their attention and get them interested?):

Give students an imperialism scenario. Have them think about what they would feel if a person in their neighborhood started buying up all the property in the area and enforcing rules on the people that lived on those properties.

Body (what comes after your interesting intro?)

Cover the PowerPoint on the end of the Spanish-American War and American Imperialism. Discuss each of the political cartoons, asking students about their opinions on them.

Put students into five groups. Allow students to find their groups before giving each group a separate document pertaining to Imperialism. Use the following documents:

The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling

In Support of an American Empire by Albert J. Beveridge

Interview with President William McKinley

The Platt Amendment

The Teller Amendment

Allow students the remainder of the class period to read the document, pick out the key points of the document and decide if their document supports or opposes American Imperialism. If students do not finish, allow them a few minutes of the next class to complete their analysis.

Closure (purposeful summary-help them remember today or anticipate tomorrow):

Have each group explain the points of their documents to the rest of the class.

Homework: none

Assessment: (How will you assess if they have mastered your objectives? Be specific.)

Completion of documents activity and discussion of political cartoons in lecture.

SOURCES: Documents activity adapted from lesson found here .

Outcomes of the Spanish-American War

Treaty of Paris

Dignitaries from the U.S. and Spain meet in _____________

Most European countries ____________________ with Spain

Ratified by the U.S. by one vote o Not all supported the treaty o Opposition of Imperialism

Independence of ____________________

U.S. gains the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Cuban Independence

Collapse of the __________________ Empire o The loss of the ________________ and ___________________ ends Spanish holdings in the

Americas

The U.S. did not allow Cuba to participate in peace talks or the surrender ceremonies

United States Gains Possession

Philippines o Fate was contested as Manila was surrendered after the _______________ was signed o Bought for $20 _________________ o ________________ o Filipinos rebel

Guam and Puerto Rico o _____________ to the U.S.

Marks the U.S. entry into ___________________ affairs o Defender of

Rise of American Imperialism

Imperialism: when a nation goes ________________ its borders to ______________ its power and influence

European countries were busy colonizing ____________ and ____________

Reasons o Political o Economic o Social

Alaska

Purchased in 1867 o ‘_________________ Folly’

Gold was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, sparking the __________________ Gold Rush

Hawaii

American leaders feared _____________________ control of Hawaii

Formed a treaty of friendship in 1849

U.S. businessmen establish __________________ plantations

American planters ________________ Queen Liliuokalani o Supported by the ______________________________ administration

__________________ in 1898 and made a territory in 1900

Opposition to Imperialism

U.S. can do fine on its own

Questions of __________________

Too many _____________________ problems

Enough land to settle in the west

Boxer Rebellion

___________-Imperialism movement in China

Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Aimed to rid China of foreign invaders o __________________ missionaries disregarded ________________ traditions

Outcomes of the Spanish

American War

Treaty of Paris

Dignitaries from the U.S. and Spain meet in Paris

Most European countries sympathized with Spain

Ratified by the U.S. by one vote

Not all supported the treaty

Opposition of Imperialism

Independence of Cuba

U.S. gains the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Cuban Independence

Collapse of the Spanish Empire

The loss of the Philippines and

Puerto Rico ends Spanish holdings in the Americas

The U.S. did not allow Cuba to participate in peace talks or the surrender ceremonies

United States gains possession

Philippines

Fate was contested as Manila was surrendered after the armistice was signed

Bought for $20 million

Annexed

Filipinos rebel

Guam and Puerto Rico

Ceded to the U.S.

Marks the U.S. entry into international affairs

Defender of Democracy

Rise of American Imperialism

Imperialism Video

Imperialism: when a nation goes beyond its borders to expand its power and influence

European countries were busy colonizing Africa and Asia

Reasons

Political

Economic

Social

Alaska

Purchased in 1867

‘ Seward’s Folly’

Gold was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, sparking the Klondike Gold

Rush

Hawaii

American leaders feared

European control of Hawaii

Formed a treaty of friendship in

1849

U.S. businessmen establish sugarcane plantations

American planters overthrow

Queen Liliuokalani

Supported by the Benjamin

Harrison administration

Annexed in 1898 and made a territory in 1900

Opposition to Imperialism

U.S. can do fine on its own

Questions of superiority

Too many domestic problems

Enough land to settle in the west

Boxer Rebellion

Antiimperialism movement in

China

Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Boxers

Aimed to rid China of foreign invaders

Christian missionaries disregarded

Chinese traditions

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