Lesson Plan

Name: John Byrd Class/Subject: US History Federalist Era Date: December 3, 2012 Student Objectives/Student Outcomes: Students will copy notes from the presentation. After the presentation, students will list and discuss in their small groups on what treaty they believe is the most important. Students will present their findings to another group and/or the teacher. Content Standards: Common Core Standards 1) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies. 2) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7.1d Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views. 3) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1a Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. Materials/Resources/Technology:
PowerPoint Computer Projector Loose Leaf Paper Pencil/Pen

Teachers Goals:
After the lesson, the students will have an understanding on why certain events after the Revolutionary War still created tensions in the newly formed United States, even though the war against Great Britain was over.

Time
5 minutes

Start of Class: Ask the students about current events in the news and their opinions on it. Introduction of Lesson: Teacher will ask the class to recall what they had learned from their homework.. Students will raise their hands to be called upon.

5 minutes

20 minutes

Lesson Instruction: Teacher will have the students take out a piece of paper to take notes. The lesson will be a PowerPoint about the Federalist Era It will go over the events in this order Whiskey Rebellion, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Treaty of Greenville, Proclamation of Neutrality, Impressment, Jays Treaty, Pinckneys Treaty & Washingtons Retirement The questions that are highlighted in blue, students must formulate & write down a response. (These questions will be on a future test)

10 minutes

Assessments/Checks for Understanding: Students will break up into their groups, (assigned at the beginning of the year) They will choose a treaty discussed in the presentation, discuss which one seems important to history of the US., and make of list of reasons why. Closure/Wrap-Up/Review: By concluding the lesson the students will share their opinion of treaty they analyzed with another group sitting near by. The teacher will walk around and ask how the students justified their answers. Self-Assessment: The teacher evaluates the students responses back to them and to each other to judge if the lessons purpose and content standards were achieved.

5 minutes