Lauren Scott Social Studies Lesson Plan for Tuesday of Week 2 Title: The Childrens Crusade Goals/Objectives: Students

s will be able to define the childrens crusade as the march taken by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement in protest of racial segregation. The students will further be able to identify outcomes of the march including the mass arresting of young people and cruel treatment of those marching, such as police dog attacks. Standards PA Standards Aligned-History 8.3.5.D: Examine patterns of conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations that impacted the history and development of the United States: Ethnicity and race. PA Standards Aligned-Civics and Government 5.2.5.C: Explain why individuals become involved in leadership and public service. 5.2.5.A: Identify individual rights and needs and the rights and needs of others in the classroom, school, community, state, and nation. PA Standards Aligned-Reading Comprehension R5.A.2.5.1: Summarize the major points, processes, and/or events of a nonfictional text Materials and Preparation Birmingham: Children Made the Difference. (2009) from Soundtrack for a Revolution: Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights Era Source Copies of readings from Freedom's children: young civil rights activists tell their own stories by Ellen Levine Chart or poster paper Colored pencils and/or markers Lap top w/ projector

Classroom Arrangement & Management Issues I will provide all materials. Students will turn their desks into groups of four or five as they are accustomed to for group work. I will explicitly inform the students how I expect them to behave: o everyone paying attention and reading along silently while I read the portion read aloud o everyone will use 6 inch voices while completing group work o everyone will work cooperatively and allow all members to contribute through ideas, writing of text, and/or illustrating (the group work anchor chart will also be referenced) I will also explicitly assign one group member to read the assigned jigsaw reading while the rest of the group members silently read along As always, students will have their Habits Of Work and Learning (HOWL) rubrics with them. Here, both positive and negative feedback is recorded in these throughout the day (ex: if a student shows great participation OR if a student is off task/needs multiple re-directives)

Plan (55 minutes) Hook (10 minutes) I will begin by explaining that we are going to continue our unit on leadership by learning about some brave children who stood up for justice during the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. I will then show the students a ten minute clip from the Children Made the Difference video. Shared Reading (10 minutes) I will then distribute Chapter 5 of the Freedoms Children book entitled The Childrens Crusade, and direct students to silently read along while I read the text out loud. Group Work Instructions (5 minutes) I will then tell the students to carefully listen to all of the directions so they know what is expected of them. I will read out the names of the students in each group while showing them which table of desks they will be moving to. I will then ask the students to quietly move to their group desks. I will then inform the students that each group is going to read a different childs story and then create a poster to represent that childs story. I will explain that each group has a team captain who will read the text out loud while the other group members read along silently. I will then read the list of team captains (readers). I will then distribute the posters rubric (attached) which will set the expectations in terms of text and illustrations as well as each groups reading. I will explain these expectations and refer to the example that I will have hung on the board. I will tell the students to get started while I hand out the poster materials, indicating that they will have the next 25 minutes to work together following our cooperative learning expectations (referencing the anchor chart).

Jigsaw Reading / Group Work (25 minutes) Students will work together for the next 25 minutes while I circulate to make sure students are on task and to provide assistance to any groups or individual students. Closing (5 minutes) I will close the lesson by letting the students know that we need to stop for the day, and also let them know they will have some class time the following day to complete their posters. I will then ask the students to take the last few minutes of class to reflect on how well they completed their group work by completing the attached self-assessment. Assessment of Goals/Objectives Listed Above Students will be informally assessed as they are working and I walk around the room in terms of how they are cooperatively working Students will be formally assessed based on the final product of their posters using the attached rubric Students will also assess themselves on how well they worked collaboratively based on the attached checklist

Anticipating students responses and your possible responses

I anticipate that the students may need some assistance picking out the most important information from their reading and will prompt as I circulate with questions such as, What do you think is important for your classmates to know about this story? I also anticipate that some groups may need extra guidance in appropriate collaborative work, specifically with which student gets to do what (drawing, writing, etc.)

Accommodations Students reading levels will be accommodated for as I will lead one part of the reading and the second part will be led by a designated strong reader in each group Students will have the opportunity to participate in the group poster by writing or drawing, which is meant to accommodate for not only various talents, but also any student who may struggle with a language, written comprehension, or fine motor skill IEP

Resources - Freedom's children: young civil rights activists tell their own stories by Ellen Levine - Birmingham: Children Made the Difference. (2009) from Soundtrack for a Revolution: Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights Era Source