EDEL453 Spring2013 JuliaVILLANUEVA Unit 2 History DAY 7

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Title of Unit: The Civil War

Title of Lesson: Chapter 13, Lesson 3- The War Ends Submitted By: Caitlin and Julia

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2013 Karen Powell- Instructor page 1

A. Summary of the Lesson Plan:This is the 3rd lesson of Chapter 13, the second portion in a Civil War unit. During this lesson,

students will describe the events and individuals who participated in the end of the Civil

War. Students will use the Houghton Mifflin 5th

grade Social Studies textbook: Unites StatesHistory, pages 466-469 for this lesson.

B. Target Population: Grade Level: 5th grade Skill Level: at grade level Grouping: whole group discussion, pair reading and independent work

C. Materials: Houghton Mifflin 5th grade Social Studies textbook: United States History, pages 466-469 Social Studies textbook Pencils Computer paper Colored Pencils

D. Objectives:o NV State Social Studies Standards

H 2.5.2- Describe issues of compromise and conflict within the UnitedStates

o Student-Friendly Standards Students will explain various factors and events that helped the Union

defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.

E. Procedure:1. Open the lesson by asking students to think about why having enough supplies is

important in completing a task

2. Discuss with students that the Union had more supplies and soldiers than theConfederacy which helped them win the Civil War

3. Introduce vocabulary words. Students will write words and definitions in thevocabulary section in their social studies journals. Definitions are on page T466.

o Telegrapho Total waro Desert

4. Allow students to pair read pages 466-469 in textbooks


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5. Have a group discussion about the pages read. Allow students to table talk and sharetheir responses with the whole group. Use prompts to guide discussions:

o What happened in the pages you read? Key events?o What was General Grants plan to end the war?o Why do you think the Union succeeded at winning the Civil War?o What events occurred at the end of the war?

6. After learning about the end of the war, students will create a newspaper headlineand short article that will describe what people on the home front would read about

when the war ended.

o Headlines can be directed towards the North or the South, but need to beaccurate based on events in the text.

o Should include information and quotes from the reading content (present andpast lessons)o At least one illustration should be included that supports information in

newspaper article

7. CLOSURE: When students complete their newspaper headline and article, they willwrite a brief paragraph in their social studies journals answering the following prompt:

List various events of the Civil war and give details about each. State why you believe

the end of the war was so important.

F. Assessment: What will you use to measure student understanding?

I will use informal assessment through table talks and discussions, newspaper activity

and the journal response to measure student understanding. Discussions should be on

topic with detailed information from text. The newspaper activity will be assessed

based on accuracy and completion and use of information from the text connecting

information. Journal response will be assessed based on accuracy and details included

in response.

Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson.I will know students have good understanding of the concepts within this lesson when

they can effectively explain significant individuals and key events in the ending of the

Civil War.

G. Reflection:1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

I think this entire lesson will be fairly easy to teach. The ending of something such as

war is usually a pleasant subject to teach with easy understanding.


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2. Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?The challenging part of this lesson to teach might be the differences in individuals

who had an impact on the end of the Civil War. Some of these names might not be

familiar to students and differentiating between individuals might be confusing for

some students.

3. How will you follow up or extend this lesson?We will continue to discuss the end of the war throughout the remaining portion of

the unit and how it affected life after the war.

4. What will you do for students who dont grasp the concepts?Misconceptions and questions will be answered throughout the lesson to help

students who do not understand the content. If students need to work in a small

group or with me individually, that will be accommodated for betterunderstanding.

5. Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change?There are a lot of fun activities that students can do for this lesson and the end of

the Civil War. I dont think I would change anything but possibly a different form of

activity that allows students to portray what soldiers and civilians were feeling when

the war ended.

6. When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part?This is the 3

rd

lesson for this unit and I am pretty comfortable writing these lessonsnow. There wasnt really a difficult part of this lesson to write.

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