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Planning An
Instructional Unit
Student Historians
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Reading Like a Historian
• Stanford History Education Group
• Nazi Propaganda
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What do historians Do?
Historical Thinking Skills
Process of Historical Investigation
• The History Project—U. of California
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Analyzing Primary Sources
NARA:
National Archives & Records
Administration
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See also
• Regional Branch In Kansas City
• Presidential Libraries
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Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy
How will students know what
you expect from them?
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Course Syllabus
•Community Principles
•Learning Rituals
•Classroom Procedures
•Grading Policies
As you listen to the song,
examine the details of the
painting and complete the art
analysis worksheet.
Norman Rockwell
Civil Rights Movement
With courage and determination,
ordinary people made our country
a better place to live.
The Big Idea
Instructional
Objectives
Other Considerations
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How much time do you have to
devote to this unit?
How much do your students already
know about the topics you will cover?
How can you make this topic relevant
to the world today?
What skills do your students need to
learn?
Important Content to Include
Topics You will Cover in this
Unit
 List Key Concepts &
Vocabulary
 Reading, Writing, & Math
Activities
 Student Performance Activity
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What resources are available?
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Handouts & Worksheets
Mapping Activities
A/V Materials: Film, Music, Art,
Photographs
Internet Resources
Primary Source Documents
How will you measure student
learning?
Tests & Quizzes for this Unit
 Projects for this Unit
 Homework Assignments
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Can all students demonstrate what
they have learned?
How will your
students know what
you expect of them?
Class Website
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Edmodo
SharePoint: District Website
• My Page
What concepts do your students
need to understand?
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Concepts are vocabulary that can be
applied across subject areas.
They are critical to your students
understanding of the real world:
What is economics?
 What is the difference between a
Republican and a Democrat?
 What is a coup d’etat?
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Teaching Concepts
5 Themes of
Geography
How to Do Terms
Political Change
GRAPES: 6
Activities
of Man
What is it?
What isn't it?
Appeasement
“Save Darfur”
Gandhi’s nonviolent
civil disobedience
Chauvinistic advocacy of
aggressive, warlike
foreign policy
Word:
Examples:
Spanish
American War
Gunboat
diplomacy
“The American
War Dog”
Jingoism
Facts:
First used British Song, Russo-Turkish War:
We don’t want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men,
we’ve got the money too
We’ve fought the Bear before, and while
we’re Britons true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople
What instructional methods
will you use?
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Teacher Led
Lecture/PowerPoint
Discussion/Analysis
Shared Reading
Audio/Visual
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Student Centered
Cooperative Learning
Activity
Student Presentations
Student Research
Simulations
Skill Work
Student Led Discussions
Build on Teacher & Student Strengths!
Reading &
Interacting with the Text
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QAR: Question Answer Relationships
Story Mapping: History Frame
Propostion/Support Outline
Kindling
How to Read a U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion
Engaging the Learner with the textbook
Interactive Notebooks
Discusssion
Classroom Discussion
Guidelines
Student
Centered
Discussion
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Inner Voice Notes
Socratic Circles
Reading Pods
Fish Bowl Debates
Use reading strategy to improve
student comprehension
Stress student use of factual detail
to support viewpoint.
Provide students with guidelines &
feedback.
Teacher Led Discussion
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Focus Question: Helps keep you &
the class on topic.
Set: Warm-Up for Discussion
Prepared list of questions for
discussion—guidelines
Wait time
WICR
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Writing
Inquiry
Collaboration
Reading
AVID
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Advancement
Via
Individual
Determination
Reading & Interpreting Maps
Interpreting Line & Bar Graphs
Blue Valley, Emporia, Geary Co, Haysville, Lawrence, Olathe,
Ottawa, Topeka, Garden City, Parsons, Wichita
Writing
Journals
 Poetry
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Acrostic Poem
 Biographic Poetry
 Diamante Poem
 “I Am” Poem
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“They Should Have Sent a Poet”
Working with Primary Sources
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Categories of Primary Sources
APPARTS Strategy
Music
Photographs
Cartoon Analysis
The DBQ APPARTS Strategy
Author:
Place and time:
Prior knowledge:
Audience:?
Reason:
The main idea:
Significance:
Lyric Analysis
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Skibbereen
Irish Folk Song
Complete The Lyric Analysis Form as
you listen to the song, and read the
lyrics.
Listen
Using Music & Photographs as
set for in class research”
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The Dust Bowl
Great Depression Research
• Notes in Notebook
• 2 Music Analysis Forms on Songs from
Great Depression
• 2 Photo Analysis Forms using LOC
photos
• Letter to President Roosevelt
• Diamante Poem
Working with Primary Sources
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Categories of Primary Sources
APPARTS Strategy
Music
Photographs
Cartoon Analysis
Political
Cartoons
Current Events
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The Choices Program: Teaching
with the News
ISIS: A New Threat
• Debating U.S. Response to Syria
• 50 Years after the March on
Washington: Students in the Civil
Rights Movement
• Debating U.S. Drone Policy
• The Conflict in Syria
Are there any questions?