STEPP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Holly Beisner

School:

Rocky Mountain High School

Title: Dylan and Folk Music

Grade Level: 11/12

Content Area: History Of Rock & Roll

Lesson #3 of 5

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson:

(Write Content Standards directly from the standard)

Theme 1: Culture
Theme 2: Time, Continuity, and Change
Theme descriptions can be found at the following website: http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands
Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Students will understand the role Bob Dylan played in the Folk Rock movement and how he influenced the
Beatles experimental sound. Students will also know other important figures within the folk/ folk rock
movement.

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)
Name 3 influential things Bob Dylan did for music in the 1960s.
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
Every student will be able to: Explain at least three specific things Bob Dylan did to change music in the 1960s.
I can: I can explain how Bob Dylan changed the folk music and influenced the Beatles.
This means: This means I understand that without Bob Dylan and the Beatles being musically experimental folk/
rock and pop music may not sound the way we know it to today or especially in the 1960s.

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List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
*Lecture to establish background on the Dylan and Folk.
*Discussion throughout.
*Listen to specific song examples and guided discussion about how the sound is changing within songs.

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the
students to associate with the activity.
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to last
and what materials will you need?
Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention.
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the
students to the objectives of the lesson, To
put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be
introduced.

Dylan and the Folk movement Purpose of the lesson is to continue

learning about the changing style of music through the 1960s. We will
explore who is credited with changing styles of music and how they
went about doing that.
This lesson will take the entire class and students will not need any
materials. All materials will be provided for them on the smart board.
Students will begin class by listening to a Woody Guthrie song, an early
Bob Dylan song and then an early Beatles song (all from within 5 years
of one another) and then asked to compare those songs, lyrically,
instrumentally, and in any other way they can then we will discuss how
these artists are all connected to one another and how they are all key
contributors to their genre.

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Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
leave your classroom. Indicate the length
of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other
Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too advanced
for a child, how will you modify it so that

-Attendance
- song intros
-lecture through Dylan and folk music
-examples of songs
-closure

For closure of this lesson we will end by returning to the first 3 songs
we listened to and then listen to 3 of the more recent songs put out by
those artists (all from 1969) and then a song by the Byrds that is an
original Dylan song to hear the changes in the genre as we move
through the 1960s.

Some students will have a guided note taking sheet so that there are
specific points in the lecture where they will be prompted to write
something down in note taking format in order to make sure that they

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they can be successful?
To extend: If the activity is too easy for a
child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?
Assessment
How will you know if students met the
learning targets? Write a description of
what you were looking for in each
assessment.

arent missing any major points within the lesson and to help them
follow along better without feeling overwhelmed.
The assessment piece of this lesson will come from the discussion that
students take part in when comparing the songs from the early 1960s
and late 1960s that pertain to this lesson specifically.

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Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize
assessment data to justify your level of achievement)

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would

you make if you were to teach again?
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,
reteach content, etc.)

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