CEP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Kerry Reynolds

School:

Poudre High School

Date: 10/11
Grade Level: 11th

Title: Work!
Lesson Idea/Topic and
Rational/Relevance: What are you
going to teach and why is this
lesson important to these students?
What has already happened in this
classroom surrounding the subject
you will be teaching? What do
students already know? Why are
you going to teach this topic now
(how does it fit in the curricular
sequence)? What teaching
methods/strategy will you be
use and why?

Content Area: US History

Lesson #:__ of __

Lesson topic is work during industrialization

with a focus on the skills of evaluating
different points of view and using a
comparative reasoning process. This lesson is
important to students because it creates an
opportunity for students to connect history to
their lives and create empathy with people
whom have different experiences. Students
will have talked about big business on a
macro level and this lesson follows up with
how big business effects people on a more
micro level.

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson:

social studies standard 1.2.f, 1.2.h, 1.1.a

(Write Content Standards directly from the standard)

Understandings: (Big Ideas)

While industrialization provided many good things it also created many issues.
What working conditions were like for both children and adults.
Work place hazards
The role of organized labor in effecting change.

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Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)

Why is organized labor important during industrialization?

How can I make connections to my own work experience to those of the workers during industrialization?

Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets) AND (Success Criteria)

I can: Evaluate primary sources for point of view, empathize with different points of view

This means: students will be able to effectively and eloquently communicate in all points of view and their
relations to labor.
List of Assessments: (Note whether the assessment is formative or summative)
My assessment this lesson is a formative assessment in the form of a RAFT which students will complete at the end
of the lesson with the only hard requirement being the that the topic of the RAFT is Work.

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the
students to associate with the activity.
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.

Approx. Time and Materials

How long do you expect the activity to
last and what materials will you need?

Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention.
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the

Work! The purpose of the lesson is for students for students to draw
connections between their experiences and the experiences of others to
gain empathy.

This lesson is a 45 minute lesson and I will need a the smart board,
internet access, note books to do their RAFTS
The Hook that I am going to use in this lesson is to have students
reflect on their work experiences, the good and the bad. Then have
students willing to share briefly their work experience.

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students to the objectives of the lesson,
To put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be
introduced.
How do you intend to engage your
students in thinking during the
Anticipatory Set?
Why are you using it at this point in
your lesson?

Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
leave your classroom. Indicate the length
of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other

The strategy I intend to use is think pair share I am using this strategy
here because: its a non-threatening to get students thinking about
their work experience and to think about what they think are good
working conditions
This lesson will begin half way through the period as Mr. Elliot finishes
his lesson on Big business.
Teacher input: students will reflect on their work experiences and what
they think fair working conditions are if they do not work this will take 5
minutes
Group practice: Students will do a pair and share what they reflected
on. 5 minutes
Whole class practice: students will discuss what they see in the photos
of child labor 15 minutes
Teacher input: during this discussion I will lead students towards details
as well as use some direct instruction highlighting work place issues
such as lack of education, low pay, and long hours. 15 minutes
Whole group practice: students will participate in a whole group brain
storm what could be considered work place safety issues 5 minutes
Teacher input: watch story of us clip on triangle shirt fire
Whole group practice: group brain storm on issues the saw 5 minutes
Individual practice: finish the lesson with a RAFT

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How do you intend to engage your
students in thinking during the
PROCEDURE?
Why are you using it at this point in
your lesson?

Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make
sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
How do you intend to engage your
students in thinking during
CLOSURE?

The strategy I intend to use is brain storming and highlighting different

points of view with direct instruction I am using this strategy here
because it gets students to draw connections between what they know
through their own experiences and those that they are seeing in the
primary and secondary sources
The closure of the lesson is a RAFT activity in which students can any
Role Audience and Format as along as the relate to the issues of work
this will help students think in different points of view and practice
writing.

The strategy I intend to use is RAFT I am using this strategy here

because: it helps students think in different points of view which will
help students create empathy and draw connections to their own lives

Why are you using it at this point in

your lesson?

Differentiation:
Differentiation should be
embedded throughout your
whole lesson!!

During the lesson I will be sure that students who struggle with English
are paired up with students who speak their native language. As well
during the raft I will have these students reflect on how they felt about
the pictures which they could more easily communicate. The RAFT
provides a great opportunity for higher achieving students to put more
effort in their RAFTS

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This is to make sure you have

met the needs of your students
on IEPS or 504
To modify: If the activity is too advanced
for a child, how will you modify it so that
they can be successful?
To extend: If the activity is too easy for a
child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?

Assessment Reflection: (data

analysis)
How will you know if students met the
learning targets? Write a description of
what you were looking for in each
assessment.

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