INQUIRY (5E) LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

Teachers: Melchor Miranda Subject: English Grade: 8th

Common Core State Standards:

 8. RI. 7: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital
text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
Objective (Explicit):
 SWBAT identify what a gender role is by analyzing Disney songs and written poems.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response

Students will come up with one solution as to how we as a society can take a step towards not having a closed mindset of what roles men and women
should have.
Sub-Objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex)
 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relative to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

I will ask students about the pressure and expectations they feel they have as students and children. Answers could be as simple as having to dress
in the latest fashions and get as deep as having to maintain a certain body weight due to what society and media has made them believe they should
be.
Key vocabulary: Stereotype, gender roles, gender, sex Materials: white board markers, poster board paper,
laptops
Engage
 How will you activate prior knowledge?
 How will you hook student attention?
 What question will you pose, based on your objective, that students will seek to answer in Explore?
Teacher Will: provide a variety of activities and occupations that the Students Will: determine if the activities and occupations with the
students will determine as male or female such as the color pink, list provided are male or female.
cooking, doctors, nurses, lawyer, etc.

Explore
 How will you model your performance expectations? (Remember you are not modeling what you want students to discover but need to
model expected behavior or required procedures.)
 How will students take the lead and actively use materials to discover information that will help them answer the question posed in the
Engage?
 What questions or prompts will you be prepared to use with students while they are “exploring”?
Teacher Will: have students work together in works of four, ideally two Students Will: will together in groups of four and research how
girls and two boys, to diagnose the list and determine why these closed gender roles have been implemented throughout the decades.
minded ideas of how men and women should act and the occupations Students will also look at statistics of men and women in the
they should do came into place. Students are to research how roles stereotyped fields such as doctors and nurses.
have changed throughout the decades.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Explain
 How will all students have an opportunity to share what they discovered?
 How will you connect student discoveries to correct content terms/explanations?
 How will all students articulate/demonstrate a clear and correct understanding of the sub-objectives by answering the question from the
Engage before moving on?
Teacher Will: Students Will: share the male/female ratio of jobs such as
Have each group have one boy and one girl share a statistic of the nurses, doctors, lawyers, and discuss why we associate jobs and
female/male ratio of a job on the list, and why we as a society have activities with certain genders.
associated certain jobs and activities with certain genders.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Elaborate
 How will students take the learning from Explore and Explain and apply it to a new circumstance or explore a particular aspect of this
learning at a deep level?
 How will students use higher order thinking at this stage (e.g. A common practice in this section is to pose a What If? Question)?
 How will all students articulate how their understanding has changed or been solidified?

Teacher Will: have students come up with solutions to fix this closed Students Will: work in the same groups to come up with solutions
mindset in a group setting. to take steps towards fixing our closed mindsets on the roles men
and women are supposed to have.

Co-Teaching Strategy
 What co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?

Differentiation Strategy
 What accommodations/modifications will you provide for specific students?
 How will you anticipate students that need an additional challenge?
Evaluate
 How will all students demonstrate mastery of the lesson objective (though perhaps not mastery of the elaborate content)?
 How will students have an opportunity to summarize the big concepts they learned (separate from the assessment)?

Teacher Will:
Have students answer prompt of what is a gender role, what role(s)
have they seen and identify with, and one solution how they think
we can better our perceptions about what the roles of men and
women should be.
Students Will: define what a gender role is, identify what gender
roles they have seen and identify with, and pick a solution how we
can change our closed mindset on what the role of men and women
are.