Lesson Plan : Rosa Parks Civil Rights Roundup
Teacher Name: | Stephanie Parke |
Grade: | Grade 6 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | In this lesson students will become familiar with the significance of Rosa Parks and the alabama bus boycott to the Civil Rights Movement through the use of analogies. |
Content: | The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students with Rosa Parks and the Alabama bus boycott while allowing them to acquire new vocabulary and use of analogies pertaining to civil rights. |
Goals: | Kids will address the acquisition of vocabulary standard. This standard encompasses student ability to acquire vocabulary through exposure to language-rich situations, such as reading books and other texts and conversing with adults and peers. They use context clues, as well as direct explanations provided by others, to gain new words. They learn to apply word analysis skills to build and extend their own vocabulary. Students will also be addressing Benchmark B which encompases student ability to infer word meaning through identification and analysis ofanalogies and other word relationships.Students will also be addressing grade level indicator CU3 which encompasses identifying analogies and other word relationships,including synonyms and antonyms, to determine the meaning of words. Students will use the reading skill learning through inquiry in the games for this lesson. By using this skill students will be able to use information from the teacher read book to come to their own conclusons regarding the use of analogies and the key concepts being taught regarding civil rights in this lesson. |
Objectives: | Kids will listen to a teacher read story about Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement. The class will them work on increasing thier knowledge of civil rights related vocabulary and the use of analogies through several group games. |
Materials: | Picture book "Rosa" by Nicki Giovanni 5 analogy handouts for group analogy activity Handout for whole class analogy game 5 dry erase boards for group and class activity |
Introduction: | I will introduce this lesson by reading the picture book "Rosa" by Nicki Giovanni. I will have a brief whole class discussion afterwards to test class comprehension and understanding of key concepts. I will have a brief discussion of analogies and how they are used in literature giving civil rights related examples. |
Development: | I will further develop the student understanding of analogies and civil rights by dividing the class into five groups and giving them an unfinished analogy to complete along with a word key to chose from. Students will have two minutes to complete this activity and to come up with a group answer and write it on their dry erase boards. |
Practice: | Each group will give their answer for their analogy and will tell the class why they chose that answer. Each group will get a longer list of analogies to work on and will be given ten minutes to complete the list. |
Accommodations: | If groups seem to be struggling with the analogy roundup game I will provide more examples of analogies and assist with group understanding as they complete their group activity. |
Checking For Understanding: | Once the groups have completed their list the whole class will discuss the group analogies. I will go over the answers and monitor student for comprehension of key terms and vocabulary. |
Closure: | The group who finished the analogies list with the most correct answers will be awarded team points to go toward a prize at the end of the lesson. |
Evaluation: | I will monitor student comprehension by assessing the questions generated from the group discussions after the book is read and the group games are completed. |
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