Professional Documents
Culture Documents
STANDARDS (www.cde.state.co)
Content:
3.a. Discuss the historical
development and impact of
major world religions and
philosophies.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
Conduct Research using
acceptable research methods.
Work effectively with others.
OBJECTIVES
Content:
SWBAT discuss the historical
development and impact of
major world religions and
philosophies by a Socratic
discussion and investigation.
SWBAT Evaluate the historical
development and impact of
political thought, theory and
actions by research and
discussion.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
SWBAT apply their ability to
work effectively with others,
cooperate for a common
purpose and conduct research
using acceptable research
methods by researching an
aspect of ancient Greek
culture and presenting it to
the class.
ASSESSMENTS What is your evidence of achieving each objective? How will students know
and demonstrate what they have learned in each of the areas, all of the objectives?
Content:
The papers that the students
turn in as well as a short ticket
out the door on what they
learned.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills:
Monitoring the groups and
the papers the students turn
in.
Democracy and
21st Century Skills
Democracy
KEY VOCABULARY
Content
Polis
Democracy
Philosophy
Architecture
Tragedy
Comedy
Content
Why do some things leave a
legacy through time?
What can Architecture tell us
about a society?
How have Greek ideas and
culture influenced you?
Why do we study Ancient
Greek Democracy?
Democracy and
21st Century Skills
LESSON FLOW
This is the actual planning of the lesson activities.
Time
5-10 min
Time
Pre-Assessment
5 min
Student brainstorm and 0-5 rating on how much they know about ancient greece
Time
Building Background
Link to Experience:
Asking students to describe justice (or injustice) in the warm-up.
Link to Learning:
The pre-assessment is a brainstorm of things the students know about ancient
Greece.
Time
Activity Name Should be creative title for you and the students to associate
with activity.
Time
10 mins
45 mins
there is any doubt that the class does not understand, the concept or skill
should be re-taught before practice begins.
I will make sure that students understand the activity they choose before we
begin.
Questioning Strategies: Utilizing Blooms Taxonomy questions should
progress from the lowest to the highest of the levels of the cognitive domain
(knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and
creativity). The question on the ticket out the door asks students to go further
with their experience. They will write about what legacy of the ancient Greeks is
most influential to them and why. I also added questions for each group to
consider as they research, discuss and write up their summary.
Independent Practice: Once the students have mastered the content or skill, it
is time to provide reinforcement practice. It is provided on a repeating
schedule so that the learning is not forgotten. It may be homework or individual
or group work in class. It can be utilized in a subsequent project. It should
provide for relevant situations not only the context in which it was originally
learned.
Time
Time
Review and Assessments of All Objectives How will you and how will the
students know they have achieved the objectives of the lesson?
Time
5-10 mins
Closure
What will you and the students do at the end of the lesson or after a chunk of
learning to synthesize, organize and connect the learning to the essential
question(s)?
I plan to get the class together at the end for a think pair share about why do
certain things stand the test of time.
Time
Next Step
I am not sure, given that I not only will not be teaching the next lesson, but
indeed will not be in class at all. This is tougher when trying to fit into someone
else's teaching and classroom.