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Present Guiding Question to Class: Present the essential question, learning objectives, and student “I can” statements. Have students preview the text to identify the vocabulary words for this week. Unpack weekly vocabulary, as appropriate. Article 1: Important Documents of the United States Word Count: 107 Vocabulary: N/A High Impact Teaching Strategies: Multiple Exposures, Collaborative Learning Lesson Plan: 1. Start the week with an object lesson. Give students a game of some type for which they do not know the rules. (A game like chess could work here, as long as students don’t know how to play. You need a game that has rules that aren’t easy to remember. There are many variations of chess from other countries that could work too. These include Xiangqu, Shogi, and Chaturaji.) Give students the pieces and ask them to play the game. a. When students ask how to play, discuss the problem of not having rules. Why is it a problem? What happens when there are no rules? What could be the results? 2. Then, explain the rules of the game to the class. The rules should be a bit lengthy or complicated, so students will not be able to easily remember them. As students play, they should see the difficulty of not having a written form of the rules. They may make up their own rules or argue about what the rules were. They may ask other students. They may ask you. After playing for a short time, discuss the situation together: a. What were the problems? b. How did you handle the problems? c. What are some possible solutions? 3. Have a class discussion about the importance of formal documents to establish rules and organization to help us live together peacefully and successfully.
4. Show students the video “Historical Documents Intro.” 5. Look at the images displayed with the article. Ask students: a. What are these documents? b. Can you name any of these documents? c. Why are these documents important to our country?
d. Did you hear any of these documents mentioned in the video? 6. Read the article as a class. 7. Give students the Important Documents graphic organizer. Tell them that they will be using this organizer to record more details as they work throughout the week.
Important Documents | Week 9
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