SIOP LESSON PLAN

Date: 02/28/2008

Grade/Class/Subject: 11&12/ELA Social Studies

Unit/Theme: Causes of the Civil War

What would lead a country into war against itself?

Standard:

1.3 use history to explain relationships

Content Objective (ACSD 14):

Recognize the compromises, laws, and judicial opinions made as

an attempt to hold the Union of States together including, (The
Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Law, The Kansas-
Nebraska Act, The Dred Scott Decision.)

Language Objective:
Students will read an article

Students will listen and talk about new vocabulary

Students will write in their double entry diary

Student Outcomes (what should students know and be able to do?):

Students will understand a series of events and laws that led to the Civil
war
Students will apply thinking/reading skills by creating a Double Entry
Diary
Students will Collaborate on Google Docs to create a Double Entry Diary

Key Vocabulary Supplementary Materials

Review: UNION, Compromise, Decision, Laptops, projector, Google Docs, Text

legislation book

SIOP Features

Preparation Scaffolding Grouping Options

_Adaptation of XModeling XWhole Class
Content _Guided Practice _Small Groups
_Links to _Independent XPartners
Background Practice XIndependent
XLinks to Past XComprehensible
Learning Input

Integration of Application Assessment

Process XHands-on XIndividual
XReading XMeaningful XGroup
XWriting XLinked to XWritten
_Speaking Objectives _Oral
XListening XPromotes
Engagement

Lesson 1. Students will be assigned a leveled reading on one of the

Sequence: events leading to the Civil War

2. Students will read the text and code the text with: I
wonder and I think statements

3. Students will create a table on Google Docs that they will

“share” with someone that has the same article

4. Students will put in WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, HOW

of the event together in one column. In the second column
they will explain how the event would lead to war.

Technology Laptop, projector, Google Docs

Integration
(equipment
and
strategies):
21st Century II. PLANNING AND DESIGNING LEARNING ENVIRON-
Skills/NETS-T MENTS AND EXPERIENCES
Standards: III. TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE CURRICULUM