Lesson Plan Class Level: 5th Grade

American
Teacher Name: Floriana, Jessica, Chelsea Revolution Unit
ALS 419/519
Term: Summer 2016

Standards Addressed (Refer to Michigan K-12 Standards) Course Goals Addressed

• K-5.4. Informational: Determine the meaning of general • Participate in social conversations in English
academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text • Move toward and beyond grade level reading in both content
relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area area reading and reading for pleasure
• Understand and correctly use English tenses, and sentence
structure appropriate for proficiency level and age
• K-5.1. Speaking and Listening: Engage effectively in a range
of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teeacherled) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts,
building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Prior Knowledge (What Student Must Lesson Outcomes/Objective(s) (Terminal)

Know Prior to Participating in
Procedures)
• Students need to be able to understand • Students will be able to gain an understanding of what and who caused the
basic instructions American Revolution
• Students will need to know certain • Students will be able to improve their reading, writing, listening and cooperating
vocabulary words skills
•

Activity Material Needed Procedure Enabling Assessment Tool

Outcomes/ Used for
Objective Recording
Student
Performance
(Written
observations,
Rubric,
Checklist, Quiz/
Test, Self-
Assessment,
etc.)
Lesson Plan Class Level: 5th Grade
Teacher Name: Floriana, Jessica, Chelsea
ALS 419/519
Term: Summer 2016

Warm-Up Old Letter Paper Journal Prompts, students will create a Students will be Written
letter to a family member or friend on an able to understand Observations
old letter paper where colonists
were coming from
when they wrote to
their family or
friends during the
time of the
Revolution
Discussion – PowerPoint Each day students will take notes on the Students will gain a Written
Presentation Powerpoint presentation I made on the basic Observations
entire causes of the American Revolution understanding of
what caused the
American
Revolution
Worksheet Vocabulary Match- Each day there is a different worksheet for Have students Written
(Individual work) Up, Word students to do individually. There are understand Observations,
Scrambler worksheets geared towards students vocabulary words Rubric
Worksheet, Tea focusing on vocabulary words they are from the lesson
Party KWL, Graphic learning from the Powerpoint presentation. plans, be able to
Organizer (Boston Then there is a KWL (What You Know, What organize the events
Tea Party), Writing You Want to Know, What You Learned) in the order of
Prompt (Boston Tea worksheet, and a writing prompt to have which they took
Party) the students act like a colonist place
Group Activity Images and Students will be put into groups to analyze Students will be Their gatherings
(Two or more groups Portraits, Poem and review a few different primary images able to play about what they
of 3-5 students) and a poem from the American Revolution. “detective” and found about the
They will work together and figure out interpret the images and
what the images mean and what the poem images and poems poem will be
reflects upon. to really gain a full looked over and
understanding of observation,
the Boston however not
Massacre graded based on
a rubric
Lesson Plan Class Level: 5th Grade
Teacher Name: Floriana, Jessica, Chelsea
ALS 419/519
Term: Summer 2016

Classroom Activity Candy, Plastic Cups Students will Role Play the taxation that This activity will Written
went on before the Revolution when the really be able to Observations
British taxed the colonists. One student make sure students
will be the British King and two students understand how
will be the tax collectors. The rest of the the colonists felt
class will be colonists. The students who when the British
play the colonists will have 10 pieces of were taxing them.
candy in a plastic cup and the tax
collectors will have tax cards and based on
what they ask for, the tax collectors will
collect a certain amount of candy from
each student. The King will receive all the
candy collect from the tax he imposed.
There are follow-up discussion questions to
figure out why the colonists were unhappy
with this.
Pairs Activity Sheet of Paper Students will be paired with one another Students will gain a Written
(Instructions for…) and asked to interview each other after greater Observation
analyzing a portrait of the Boston Tea understanding on
Party. Each student will interview the other how the Boston Tea
on how to best portray the event of the Party was
Boston Tea Party (one student will be from portrayed
the perspective of a British soldier and the
other from the perspective of an American
colonist)
Discussion/Wrap-up/ Youtube Video There is a short Youtube video on the Finish off the topic Self-Assessment
Closure Vocabulary Quiz causes of the American Revolution that for the quizzes
Short Quiz students will watch that will wrap up the (they can check
topic. There will also be a vocabulary quiz the quizzes
and short quiz on the topic we learned themselves after
about just to make sure students are fully they complete
understanding it)
Written
Observation
Extra-Class
Assignment
Lesson Plan Class Level: 5th Grade
Teacher Name: Floriana, Jessica, Chelsea
ALS 419/519
Term: Summer 2016