Daily Lesson Plan for Comprehensive Prep &

Modifications
Instructor:

Subject:

Date:

Period:

Todays Theme
/ Purpose

Police History

Todays
Essential
Question(s)

Why do we have a Police force in America? How did it originate and what was its original
purpose? What kind of training must Police officers go through? How could Police Officers
become more involved in the community?

Todays Key
Terms /
Vocabulary

Night watch, Sheriff, Modern Police, Watchmen, Police training,

Police Brutality, Community involvement

Todays
Student
Reminders /
Messages

Keep in mind what standards police officers must follow, how they are viewed in the public
eye now versus when they first started. What are police officers doing to prevent being seen
negatively in the public eye? How would you want your police officers to be more involved
in the community?

Key Skills /
Standards

Illinois Learning Standards

Using Technology
Use appropriate instruments,
electronic equipment, computers
and networks to access
information, process ideas and
communicate results.
Technology today provides a
channel through which
students can gather
knowledge of the past, search
information about today and
make hypotheses regarding
the future. This technology
includes databases, computer
programs, on-line services
and interactive
telecommunications. It allows
students to gather and
process data from a variety of
sources, from archives in the
Library of Congress to
historical art works from
around the world. Students
can share ideas and
information not only with their
classmates, but with a "virtual
classroom" of students from
across the worldsocial
science in action

Main Project
Working
Towards

Understanding why we
have a united police force

Common Core Standards

CCSS.ELA Literacy.SL 11-12.5 Make

strategic use of digital media (e.g.,
textual, graphical, audio, visual,
and interactive elements) in
presentations to enhance
understanding of findings,
reasoning, and evidence and to
add interest
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1
Initiate and participate effectively in a
range of collaborative discussions
(one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grades
11-12 topics, texts, and issues,
building on others' ideas and
expressing their own clearly and
persuasively

Student
Learning
Activities

Students will (chronologically):

Teacher
Instructional
Activities

Assessments
of / for
Learning

Needed
Resources

Introduce youtube video below

Cop guest speaker
-Ms. Renee Price
Training videos

Students will be assessed with / by:

Enrichment /
Homework

Interview school police officers (ask about training)

Discuss possible ideas of how police officers train
Discuss where the history of police officers started
and begin research of when they did using a
computer
Brainstorm ideas on how you would want a police
officer to be involved in your community and
research past events.

Teachers will (chronologically):

Modifications:
Use NEIU Police Officer to
do Guest Speaking in case we
cannot get a hold of the
school

Modifications:

Forming a timeline of historic police events

Bring discussions on what they learned from police
trainings
Demonstrate historical awareness of police force
Create an event such as community service,
sports event, or fundraiser to involve the police
force in the community and build a positive
bond with the community.

For further studies students can:

Modifications:

Visit local library for books

Read first three chapters of The Job: True Tales
from the Life of a New York City Cop by Steve
Osborn

Modifications:
Bring Books to class if we
cannot visit a library

https://youtu.be/uB8TThgRPq0 History of Police force

https://youtu.be/ZIBnFq7ViB4 Police training video when to use lethal force
https://youtu.be/e3omXxplhxQ Training Video
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop by Steve Osborn
Interview of Steve Osborn http://www.npr.org/2015/04/21/401238481/after-20years-on-the-job-nyc-police-officer-tells-his-intense-stories
http://limaohio.com/news/news/794022/Program-builds-bond-between-cops-kids
Article on building a bond with police officers
-notebooks
-poster board
-markers
-computer access
-access to available community police officer