Teaching Team: Lesson Topic/Title:

Alicia Rusthoven Poverty in Russia

Nolan Jett
Emmett Brady
Matthew Bishop Date(s): ​May 15th
Ryan Lillestrand
Subject Area/Grade Level:
6th/7th graders

Objectives/Standards (refer to specific TEKS):

ENGLISH
3C) ​analyze how place and time influence the theme or message of a literary work

Ryan’s Station will cover this.

13D) analyze various digital media venues for levels of formality and informality

Emmett’s station will cover this

HISTORY
1B) analyze the historical background of various contemporary societies to evaluate relationships
between past conflicts and current conditions.

Matthew and Nolan’s Station will cover this.

8B) ​Identify problems and issues that may arise when one or more of the factors of production is in
relatively short supply

Alicia’s simulation will cover this

Essential Learnings (What do you want the students to learn about your culture?)

Russia was a very impoverished country in the 19th century and Serfdom

Activities:

What will the students be doing? Create a step by step What will the teachers be doing? How
list of activities that will appeal to a variety of will you check for understanding or
learners: assess learning?

- Students will come in and make name tags - Teachers will introduce the topic
 - Students will do a warm up where they write
down things they already know about Russia and
will be introduced to the topic that will be
discussed
- Students will be separated into groups by being
counted off, will go to stations
- Stations that kids will rotate around
Station 1: Short Story- Ryan
Station 2: Simulation- Alicia
Station 3: Serfdom- Matthew
Station 4: Abolishment of Serfdom- Nolan
Station 5: Living Condition- Emmett
- Kids play a game of jeopardy in two teams to test
what they learned during the lesson
and begin by having students make
make name tags (Matthew)
- Then teachers will run a KWL
- Teachers will separate kids up into
groups to do the lesson (Alicia)
- Each teacher will run one station
and teach the topic
- Teachers will do various jobs such
as moderating groups, keeping
points, and asking the questions
- Teachers will split the room in half
and run a jeopardy game until end
of class (Nolan)

Interdisciplinary Connections: (What part of your lesson involves English? What types of
activities relate to Social Studies?)

Emmett’s station involves students analyzing images which is an english tek but the images are
historical and show Russia in the 1860s

The simulation station involves mostly social studies to show poverty in 1800’s Russia and its effect
on individual culture of different social classes.

Ryan’s short story analysis and discussion will cover an english tek and push students to read a piece
from a Russian author and get a sense for the style of writing and the importance of the content shown.

Levels of Thinking in Lesson: Closure:

__x___Knowledge (Remember) Jeopardy Game to test what the students learned

__x___Comprehension (Understand)
_____ Application
__x___Analysis
_____ Evaluation (Critique)
_____ Synthesis (Create)

Teaching Team Roles and Responsibilities: (Who will teach which aspect of the lesson? What is
each person responsible for preparing/bringing/researching/creating?)
All Students will introduce themselves and give an overview of the lesson

Emmett will prepare laminated images for the students

Emmett will help create the jeopardy, link at
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JCMr2Wzq3bbPcD2b_y41BLhZ27zgsQxR9TLEpEWCcNg/e
dit?usp=sharing

Alicia will teach one station/simulation on poverty and what it was like.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w9VUhtnorrOjE1QjVSPIf0iX83jVyMtHznsFRuQmQOI/edit?us
p=sharing

Matthew will team a station over serfdom in Russia

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iWylMDyr2QaCzNn9Zc1wmsMux8yileC_R7YBxjwrZhI/edit?u
sp=sharing

Ryan will introduce the topic of Russian poverty and teach a station over Russian literature
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Qzaf10rHhz4SBlLypBhUtMbTzBZI78ZNcorZPpNwd4/edit

Nolan will teach about the abolishment of serfdom

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xk5eOvJk7jA_wfU6cW0V1o76qvKP4-q5u2DhC9-lVbw/edit