Weekly Lesson Plan

Date: February 27, 2017

Week: 28

M	1. Finish Holocaust lesson -- Read my survivor notes Propaganda: (plus project check for mastery students) 2. Show & discuss Rosie the Riveter NBC news story: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53117754#47548425 3. Show video clip of bombers: "Memphis Belle" 4. Watch & analyze Donald Duck propaganda cartoon, if time -- objectives: -- explain reasons for Holocaust & identify propaganda and its applications *Quiz tomorrow!
T	1. Early WWII quiz... 6 questions 2. Bataan photo (my documents) and Hoosier Vet Clip on Bataan... http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/02/04/former-indiana-gov-edgar-d-whitcomb-dies-age-98/79836514/ 3. Read "The Meaning of Endurance"... Lou Zamperini story 4. Show Iwo Jima clip, if time -- Objective: assess POW treatment by the Japanese
W	1. Notes on Hitler's errors & pass around 2 photos of Hitler 2. Start Map of World War II from my documents 3. Valkyrie (Hitler assassination attempt) -- show diagram, pictures in my documents, & movie clip & bomb reenactment (39:30-45:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmegR3yRaKw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErGaQMRw9o 4.  Finish Map of World War II -- objective: understand Hitler's errors & visualize a world without him
Th	1. Read USS Indianapolis article 2. USS Indianapolis (James O'Donnell) video clip: http://www.indystar.com/article/20111111/NEWS1001/101102010 3. Begin Atomic bomb lesson (see my documents) 4.  Worksheet -- due Friday -- objective: determine how dropping atomic bomb should be remembered
F	1. Grade worksheet     *Mastery presentations begin early next week 2. Share/pass around newspapers about atomic bomb 3. Show parts of White Light, Black Rain 4. List A-bomb arguments in pairs; research as homework -- objective: determine how dropping the atomic bomb should be remembered

 

Weekly Lesson Plan

Date: February 20, 2017

Week: 27

M	Presidents' Day... no school
T	1. Lil' Hitler cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-axJTzj0VUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0Et56Hxt4 2. Stanford lesson on Jesse Owens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FSbJH-Qk_s -- Jesse Owens -- My Greatest Olympic Prize article (in my documents) -- trailer for the movie Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmh3MeFArg 3. Show list of Allied, axis powers (in my documents) 4.  Finish newspaper front page for late grade, if necessary Objective: appreciate friendship and women's roles in the war.
W	*Enrichment activity: read & answer questions from Mein Kampf (due Thursday) 1. Internment lesson (Reading like a Historian) & propaganda clip: https://archive.org/details/Japanese1943 2.  Read "Residents Interned during WW II" article 3.  George Takei interview (last 3 minutes)... http://io9.gizmodo.com/george-takei-describes-his-experience-in-a-japanese-int-1533358984 Objective: empathize with Japanese-Americans during internment
Th	1. Japanese-American 442nd Regiment video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_3KO9c_QE 2.  Finish Japanese internment lesson 3.  show video clip (Normandy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RTzi5Vt7w 4. Read Normandy accounts by Lt. Burkhalter (my documents) Objective: appreciate sacrifices of Japanese-Americans & soldiers at Normandy
F	*Enrichment activity: collect & share Hitler's Jewish quotes 1. Finish Normandy lesson -- Slideshow of my Normandy pictures/Pass around sand -- German soldier story/ask questions/Pass around Bronze Star Holocaust lesson: 2. Notes on reasons for the Holocaust -- objective: explain the reasons for the Holocaust

Weekly Lesson Plan

Date: February 20, 2017

Week: 27

M	1. Lil' Hitler cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-axJTzj0VUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH0Et56Hxt4 2. Stanford lesson on Jesse Owens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FSbJH-Qk_s -- Jesse Owens -- My Greatest Olympic Prize article (in my documents) -- trailer for the movie Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGmh3MeFArg 3. Show list of Allied, axis powers (in my documents) 4.  Finish newspaper front page for late grade, if necessary Objective: appreciate friendship and women's roles in the war.
T	*Enrichment activity: read & answer questions from Mein Kampf (due Thursday) 1. Internment lesson (Reading like a Historian) & propaganda clip: https://archive.org/details/Japanese1943 2.  Read "Residents Interned during WW II" article 3.  George Takei interview (last 3 minutes)... http://io9.gizmodo.com/george-takei-describes-his-experience-in-a-japanese-int-1533358984 Objective: empathize with Japanese-Americans during internment
W	1. Japanese-American 442nd Regiment video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_3KO9c_QE 2.  Finish Japanese internment lesson 3.  show video clip (Normandy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RTzi5Vt7w 4. Read Normandy accounts by Lt. Burkhalter (my documents) Objective: appreciate sacrifices of Japanese-Americans & soldiers at Normandy
Th	*Enrichment activity: collect & share Hitler's Jewish quotes 1. Finish Normandy lesson -- Slideshow of my Normandy pictures/Pass around sand -- German soldier story/ask questions/Pass around Bronze Star Holocaust lesson: 2. Notes on reasons for the Holocaust -- objective: explain the reasons for the Holocaust
F	1. Quiz over WW II (my documents) 2. Pass around Holocaust pictures from classroom file cabinet 3. Share my Holocaust guest speaker notes 4. Watch clip of A Painful Reminder video  * You are a juror at Nuremberg trials.  How would you rule, why?... paragraph response Objective: empathize with those in the Holocaust

 Weekly Lesson Plan

Date: February 13, 2017

Week: 26                        

 

Description

M	Finish Kahoots WWII note game https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/3f105562-f078-4f02-8c0c-efa6a4c98828 Objective: comprehend the US role in European WWII affairs.
T	Begin This Is Not a Drill activity on Pearl Harbor  http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/pearl/real/realthing.htm ·        Groups of 3... each group develops a newspaper front page from photos, timelines, and eyewitness accounts Objective: Reconstruct the events of Pearl Harbor
W	Continue This Is Not a Drill activity ·        Go over rules for headlines, articles, etc. ·        Bring in typed out headline, captions, and article tomorrow Objective: Reconstruct the events of Pearl Harbor
Th	*Meet with some students to formulate achievement plans Continue This Is Not a Drill activity ·        Begin putting together newspaper front page Objective: Reconstruct the events of Pearl Harbor
F	-- Pearl Harbor 5 min. video clip http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor/videos 1. Finish putting together newspaper front page/turn in 2. Worksheet 17 Objective: create an end-product newspaper front page

Weekly Lesson Plan

 

Date: February 6, 2017

Week: 25

	Description
M	1. Show GDP stats during Depression (in my documents) 2. Finish watching Cinderella Man *Share "James Braddock's notes" from my documents 3.  Journal #3: Why was James Braddock the sentimental favorite? Objective: evaluate James Braddock as a representation of history.
T	1. The New Deal quiz 2. Show actual footage of James Braddock fight: https://archive.org/details/MaxBaerVsJamesBraddock *Enrichment activity: "Lessons in Manliness" article with questions 3. Explain YMCA & show video clip/explain AAA 4. Current events... watch "Finding Refuge" 60 Minutes/discuss http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-syrian-refugee-crisis/ Objective: compare & contrast immigration issues of the past and today.
W	1. 1920s & 30s test 2. "Lessons in Manliness" article with questions Objective: effectively state the lessons from the 20s and 30s.
Th	Begin World War II unit 1. World War II pretest or do Kahoot note game: https://create.kahoot.it/#quiz/3f105562-f078-4f02-8c0c-efa6a4c98828 -- Mastery students will do individual research activity (from Walsh) Objective: comprehend the US role in European WWII affairs.
F	1. Finish Kahoot note game on WWII Objective: comprehend the US role in European WWII affairs.