Stephen Ho

Subject
Topic of lesson: Music and African Americans Pt. 2 ELA
Area:
Grade level: Grade 7 Unit: Black History Month
How did Daryl Davis dismantle the KKK in Maryland all by
himself?
Essential
Big Idea: Dialogue, Empathy What is empathy?
Questions: What is dialogue?
How can these help us in our daily lives?
Explanation, Interpretation, This lesson is extremely relevant to student life because it
Understandings: Perspective, Empathy, Self- Relevance: teaches them about how to solve conflict and how to engage in
dialogue about contentious subjects.
Knowledge
Resources required:
Introduction: 15 minutes Smart board
10 minutes silent reading Laptop
Short biography of Sammy Davis Junior-3 Pencil and paper
minutes QEP Subject Area Competencies
Recap of biography: Whats the persons name? Competency 1: Uses language/talk to communicate and to
What did they do? Why are they important? Any learn. Students will be engaging in debate and discussion with
thoughts?-2 minutes
their peers in smaller groups and then again as a class.
Competency 2: Reads and listens to written, spoke, and
media texts. Students will listening and watching to media
Development: 35 minutes
that is relevant to them and learning how to be critical of it
Hand out worksheet
and themselves.
Show Daryl Davis video-10 minutes
Have them work on the sheet while they watch Competency 3: Produces texts for personal and social
the video purposes. This lesson will lead into a project they will be
Get into groups with your table, designate roles: working on the next week about their favourite song. They
Recorder, Speaker, Timer will have to analyze lyrics and explain their choice.
Break into groups designate roles: Recorder, Timer, Student will know (learning objectives):
Speaker Students will know who Daryl Davis is, who Sammy Davis Jr. is,
In groups discuss questions 4-9 -15 minutes they will know what the KKK is
Extra questions if students are lost: Did you guys Students will understand (learning objectives):
get similar answers? If not why did you disagree? If Students will understand the purpose and value of dialogue and
you did agree, why did you all come up with the debate. They will understand how to use it and how to empathize
answers and find a justification, a reason, why you and think critically.
chose your answers Cross Curricular Competencies:
Speaker from each group will present their ideas-10 This lesson addresses the cross-curricular competencies 1 through 4.
minutes That is, uses information, solves problems, exercises critical
judgment, and uses creativity.
Conclusion: 2 minutes The information disseminated to the students in this lesson cannot
simply be taken at face value, the deeper lesson here is to be able to
Conclude about the importance of dialogue
Introduce next weeks assignment use the critical skills learned to examine conflicts within their own
lives. They must use information to solve problems or conflicts
creatively and critically.

Broad Areas of Learning:

Health and well-being: This lesson will contribute to student mental
health in that they will have a method of dealing with mental and
emotional stress in healthy ways. They will also be able to
understand the health and well-being needs of others better.
Media Literacy: This lesson will teach students to be critical of
things that they see on the media and be wary of one-sided
 perspectives.
Citizenship and Community Life: This lesson aids students to
integrate into a community life in that they will be able to connect
and empathize with other members of a community.
Differentiated Instruction:
Students will be addressed through a variety of means ranging from
lecture, to group activities, to film analysis. The multitude of
approaches will hopefully address the many different kinds of
learning styles that exist.
Having the students come up with answers on their own and discuss
amongst themselves is an effective method to having them retain
knowledge, as opposed to simply lecturing to them.
Further considerations:
Having students address real life issues that may be raised
throughout the lesson allows students to connect schooling to their
own lives in a way that is tangible.

FORMATIVE - Assessment FOR learning:

The students will be filling out a worksheet as/after they watch the
YouTube clip. This, along with the work they produce during their
discussion, and the discussion itself, will provide solid material and
evidence to assess the students.
FORMATIVE - Assessment AS learning:
Having students discuss their answers two separate times will allow
the students to teach each other and to demonstrate their knowledge.
SUMMATIVE - Assessment OF learning:
Following this lesson, there will be assignment in which they will
write about a song which is very influential to them and why. This
will help them think more clearly about the role music can play in
social, cultural, political, and personal change and development.
The final assessment of this unit will be a biography project on a
famous African Canadian or African American.
Each class during this unit has begun with a short three minute
biography of a famous African American or Canadian. This will
give the students some ideas as to how a biography should appear.
Not only will the students give information on the individual, but
they will also have to relate it to their own lives and explain why
they chose that particular individual and how their achievements
have affected the student and society at large.
Teaching Skill: Mediation of discussion
 EDTL 601 Learning Plan TEMPLATE1
Name:
Subject
Topic of lesson:
Area:
Grade level: Unit:
Essential
Big Idea:
Questions:
Understandings: Relevance:
Learning activities: Resources Required:

QEP Subject Area Competencies

Student will know (learning objectives):

Students will understand (learning objectives):

Cross Curricular Competencies:

Broad Areas of Learning:

Differentiated Instruction:

Further considerations:

FORMATIVE - Assessment FOR learning:

FORMATIVE - Assessment AS learning:

SUMMATIVE - Assessment OF learning:

1 Based on a modified version of Understanding By Design (UBD)