STEPP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Holly Beisner

School:

Rocky Mountain High School

Grade Level: 9-12

Content Area: History Of Rock & Roll

Title: Music and the Antiwar Movement

Lesson: #9

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 links between the antiwar movement and music at the time.

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)
What was the antiwar movement and how can this movement/ form of protest be observed through music?
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
Every student will be able to: Every student will be able to name songs that played an influential role in the
antiwar movement and express what the antiwar movement was.
I can: I can explain the antiwar movement in terms of music.
This means: This means I understand the links between music and popular culture.

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List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
*Intro talk about Vietnam, what do students already know, what questions do they have about it up front?
*Lecture/ work through the guided activity as a class. Pause for linked in music/ videos.
*Question time at the end of class, answer to the inquiry question do by the next class period.

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.

Music & the antiwar movement

This lesson is to establish the importance that music has played and
continues to play in protest movements. The antiwar movement of the
late 1960s and 1970s is perhaps one of the largest.
This lesson will take the entire class and students will all need to bring
their computers to class to use those.
Students will begin class by watching a short news clip that was
broadcasted from NBC news to American TVs discussing the war in
Vietnam as present time, then we will go into a class discussion of what
they know, what they want to know, how does the clip make them feel
and any other brought up questions by the class.

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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
-students break into their Wednesday groups.
-Intro video
-intro discussion
-groups work through activity
-activity includes many stopping points to watch videos, listen to songs
so we will do this as a class.
-wrap up with individual work time to answer the inquiry question.

For closure of this lesson we will end by getting in class time to answer
the inquiry question. This question needs to be at least one paragraph
and include specific examples so it will be due the next day at the
beginning of class.

The group activites have assigned groups where there are students
from all ends of the spectrum in every group, there will be a designed
leader role in every group and that person will guide other students

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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.

who are struggling with the material.

Students will be assessed when they turn in their response to the

inquiry question the next day. I will be looking for specific examples, so
if those are not included students will be required to redo the write up.

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Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize
assessment data to justify your level of achievement)
The lesson objective will be assessed by every student through the
response question which will be worth points in the grade book.

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

you make if you were to teach again?
In doing this lesson again I would like to show more songs that have to
do with later antiwar/ protest songs. I liked how many we were able to
show for Vietnam but it would have been cool to wrap it up by tying it
into more present day issues.
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,
reteach content, etc.)
The lesson after this will wrap up the 1970s and get ready for our unit
test.

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