Lesson Plans:

Unit 2: Social Step-up

Day 1 9/09
Objective: Students will understand fundamental social skills
Lesson: Students will learn and practice social skills.
Activities:

Journal Write over essential question 1

Team Building Activity
Introduction to Social Skills

Day 2 9/10
Objective: Students will practice fundamental social skills
Lesson: Todays lesson consists of multiple opportunities for students to practice the
social skills we talked about the previous day.
Activities:

Journal Free-Write
Team Building Activity
Social Writing Conversation Speed Dating

Day 3 9/11
Objective: Students will practice more advanced social skills
Lesson: The students will expand on the activities from the previous day by
increasing the complexity of the social skills necessary to be successful. The
students will have the opportunity to practice what they have learned in the
previous two days.
Activities

Journal Entries Expand on Tuesdays Free Write

Social cues and conversations speed dating
Social conversations group quiz

Day 4 9/16
Objective: Students will understand the positive and negative uses of social media
Lesson: Social Media plays a large part in each students lives. In todays lesson the
students will learn how social media can influence their lives as well as other
peoples lives.
Activities

Journal Write over essential question 2

How you have been hurt or felt good using social media
Introduce Social Interaction Essay
Introduce Social Media Project

Homework: Work on both Social Interaction Essay and Social Media Project
Day 5 9/17
Objective: Students will work on Social Interaction Essay and Social Media Project
Lesson: Students will have time in class to work on their social interaction essay and
their social media project
Activities:

Social Interaction Essay

Social Media Project

Homework: Social Interaction Essay due in class the next day

Day 6 9/18
Objective: Students will work together to finish social media project.
Lesson: Students will have time in class to work on Social Media Project as well as
expand on essential question 2 using experiences they have had in the previous
days of class.
Activities

Journal Write over essential question 2 expanded

Work on social media project

Day 7 9/20
Objective: Students will finish up any last minute details of their Social Media
Projects and will present them in class. Students, as a group, will expand on both
essential questions.

Lesson: The students will present their projects for the teacher and receive a major
grade. Both essential questions should now be expanded to include experience from
the social media project.
Activity:

Social Media Project

Essential Questions Expanded in journals

Activity: The students will write key words over essential questions