Direct Instruction Lesson Plan

Grade Level/Subject: 5th/ Social

Studies/Reading

Central Focus: Bill of Rights/Reading and interpret

informational text
Big Idea Statement: Students will be able to read and
interpret the Bill of Rights in their own words.
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
5.C&G.2.2 Analyze the rights and responsibilities of
United States citizens in relation to the concept of the
"common good" according to the United States
Constitution (Bill of Rights).
Date submitted:
Date
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10 By the end of the year, read taught: 3/23/2016
and comprehend informational texts, including
history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at
the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to interpret the amendments in the Bill of
Rights individually with 80 percent accuracy.
21st Century Skills
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):
Communication and
Language Function: Interpret
Collaboration: Students will be
Vocabulary:
able to communicate and
Bill of Rights
interpret what the ten
Amendment
amendments are and learn how
to collaborate with partners to
identify vocabulary they do not
know and be able to come up
with student-friendly definitions
for the amendments.
Prior Knowledge:
Some student may know what the Bill of Rights are, but some cannot tell you an
overview of what the amendments are or what purpose they serve.

Activity

Description of Activities and Setting

Time

Review what is Bill of Rights

How to interpret difficult text
1. Focus and
Review

2. Statement of
Objective
for Student

3. Teacher Input

4. Guided
Practice

Review what is the Bill of Rights: Turn and talk to partner

on what you think it is

10
mins

Today you will be able to interpret the Bill of Rights by

reading amendments and pulling out the key information.
The teacher will show a video on the Bill of Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEfLm5dLMQ
an overview and then show the Billl of Rights in the
original language and ask students what they notice.
Throughout the text, teacher will stop and ask questions
for understanding. Teacher will ask questions such as So
what are the Bill of Rights? Why do we need them?
What are some words that you can pull that help you
understand what they are protecting? Why is that
important?
After class discusses the Bill of Rights, the teacher will
pass out the graphic organizer with the Bill of Rights
amendment on the first column, space for interpretation
on the next, and column for illustrations of that
amendment. Teacher will put up the graphic organizer on
the doc cam and go over what she wants from the class.
Sometimes reading important documents are hard to
interpret. Today we are going to use this graphic organizer
to interpret the amendments. With this document you will
read the amendment, then interpret what it states, then
draw an illustration. Lets do the first one together. The
first amendment reads- Prohibits the making of any law
respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free
exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech,
infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the
right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning
for a governmental redress of grievances. Wow that was
hard. What are some important words from this

5 mins

15
mins

Name:____________________
Date:_____________________
Amendment
Amendment I
Prohibits the making of
any law respecting an
establishment of religion,
impeding the free exercise
of religion, abridging the
freedom of speech,
infringing on the freedom
of the press, interfering
with the right to peaceably
assemble or prohibiting
the petitioning for a
governmental redress of
grievances.
Amendment II
Protects the right to keep
and bear arms.

In your own words

Drawing

Amendment III
Prohibits quartering of
soldiers in private homes
without the owner's
consent during peacetime.

Amendment IV
Prohibits unreasonable
searches and seizures and
sets out requirements for
search warrants based on
probable cause as
determined by a neutral
judge or magistrate.
Amendment V
Sets out rules for
indictment by grand jury
and eminent domain,
protects the right to due
process, and prohibits selfincrimination and double
jeopardy.

Amendment VI
Protects the right to a fair
and speedy public trial by
jury, including the rights to
be notified of the
accusations, to confront
the accuser, to obtain
witnesses and to retain
counsel.
Amendment VII
Provides for the right to
trial by jury in certain civil
cases, according to
common law.
Amendment VIII
Prohibits excessive fines
and excessive bail, as well
as cruel and unusual
punishment.
Amendment IX
Protects rights not
enumerated in the
Constitution.

Amendment X
Limits the powers of the
federal government to
those delegated to it by
the Constitution.