LESSON PLAN 7

Name: Ashley Freije

Lesson Title & Subject(s): The Holocaust

Topic or Unit of Study: World War II

Grade/Level: 11

Instructional Setting:

Standard classroom. 20-25 students. A whiteboard will be at the front of the classroom as well as a projector to show computer presentations.

ore Curriculum/Student Achievement Standard(s):

USH.5.4 Describe Hitler’s “Final Solution” and identify Allied responses to the Holocaust.

USH.9.4 Describe issues/problems of the past through the viewpoints of those involved.

Lesson Goal(s):

Students will learn about Hitler’s “final solution,” including its timeline and execution. They will also learn how other nations reacted to the tragedy and it’s lasting impact.

Lesson Objective(s):  

Given a list of vocabulary words, students will be able to define the terms with 80% accuracy.

Given a prompt. students will be able to provide one reason the internment of Japanese-Americans was similar to that of Jews, and one reason they were different with 75% accuracy.

Instructional Materials:

Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J., Levy, Peter B., Roberts, Randy, Taylor, Alan. (2010). United States History: reconstruction to the Present. Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.

Sequence of Instructional Procedures/Activities/Events (provide description and indicate approximate time for each):

1. Identification of Student Prerequisite Knowledge and/or Skills: 

Students will have learned about Hitler’s views on Jews in a previous lesson.

2. New Knowledge and/or Skills To Be Taught:

Students will learn the details and timeline of Hitler’s “final solution” as well as its execution and effects.

3. Modeling:  I Do

I will lecture students on the Holocaust, its execution, and its still-present effects.

4. Guided Practice:  We Do

We will discuss the Holocaust and ho wit has influenced global policies.

5. Independent Student Practice:  You Do

Students will begin work on assigned homework.

6. Culminating or Closing Procedure/Activity/Event:

I will ask students if they have any questions about the lesson and preview the next lesson.

Pedagogical Strategy (or Strategies):

Direct Instruction: Lecture

Class Discussion: Holocaust effects

Independent Practice: Homework

Differentiated Instruction:

A visual timeline will be provided for special needs children and visual learners to help them better understand the progression of Hitler’s “final solution.”

Technology Integration

      A SmartBoard will project the lesson PowerPoint.

Student Assessment/Rubrics:

Students will have an assigned homework where they define key terms and give one similarity and one difference between Japanese-American internment and Jewish internment.