Educator: Courtlin Lee

Grade level:4th Grade

Subject:Social Studies

Date of lesson:

Length of lesson: 1 hour

Lesson Topic:

Life in the times of Slavery and the Civil War

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Overall Goal: (Broad action statement using non action verbs) “Students will understand

that…”

To be able to encode and decode texts and pictures from the times of slavery and the Civil War.

Learner Background: (This addresses why the lesson is being taught.) Describe the students’

prior knowledge or skill related to the learning objective(s).

Students will have discussed slavery and the Civil War in 3rd grade and will have some prior

knowledge on the subject.

Curricular Standards: Identify the primary state standard(s) this lesson is designed to help

students attain. (If required, include the national and/or local standards as well.)

4-6.3 Explain the specific events and issues that led to the Civil War, including

sectionalism, slavery in the territories, states’ rights, the presidential election of 1860, and

secession

Student Learning Objective(s): Identify specific and measurable learning objectives for this

lesson. Use action verbs. “Students will be able to….”

● Students will be able to understand why slavery was so important to the South.

● Students will understand why some Southerners felt as if they were helping by

participating in the practice of slavery.

● Students will understand the economic gains of slavery for the South.

● Students will examine pictures and texts from this time in order to have more insight into

life during this time period

Assessment:
Part I: Describe how you will check for student understanding during the lesson. (Formative)

● Each child will read the same text and there will be a quiz at the end of class asking for

general information from the text.

Part II: How will you ask students to demonstrate mastery of the student learning objective(s)?

Attach a copy of any assessment materials you will use, along with assessment criteria/rubric.

(Formative or Summative)

● I will ask students to describe what they have read and how it applies to our current topic.

● I will also give them a picture with no text and they will have to explain the picture in

their own words

Materials/Resources: List the materials you will use in each learning activity including any

technological resources.

● Smartboard

● Laptops

● Internet

The Lesson

Initiation:

Part I - Briefly describe how you will introduce the lesson, engage students in the lesson and

connect it to previous learning. (This is intended to motivate students.)

I will introduce the lesson by having a random picture from that time period on the board. I will

then give them 5 minutes to infer about the picture and what it means.

Part II – (This is intended to bridge to the lesson: set expectations for learning, articulate to

learners what they will be learning in this lesson and why this is important).

In this lesson they will be learning about the life in the North and South through pictures and

text. This important because although slavery and the Civil War were a terrible time in history, it

is very important that we understand the reasons behind it.

Lesson Development: Describe how you will develop the lesson: what you will do to model or

guide practice and the learning activities students will be engaged in to gain the key knowledge

and skills identified in the student learning objective(s). Include the questions you will ask,

identify and explain the instructional grouping (whole class, small groups, pairs, individuals) for
each lesson segment, and include the approximate times for each. Indicate how diversity will be

included. Include reference to Bloom’s taxonomy to identify higher levels of thinking.

1. Introduction (8 mins)

2. Picture Decoding (15mins)

3. Text Decoding (25mins)

4. Class discussion (5mins) (children are allowed to share their thoughts and opinions)

5. Quiz (5mins) (to assess their understanding of the lesson)

Closure: Briefly describe how you will end the lesson, help students understand the purpose of

the lesson, and show how it will connect to future learning. (Interact with learners to elicit

evidence of student understanding of purpose(s) for learning and mastery of objectives)

After the quizzes have been collected I will end the lesson by foreshadowing that although

slavery ended after the Civil War. There was still tension between the North and the South and

although African Americans were “free”, they still faced many hardships.