Secondary Lesson Plan

RIGHTS
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Student Teachers Name: Sanel Terzic
Date: 3-01-2016 (Tuesday)
Lesson Title: Intro to Rights
Subject: Civics
Instruction time: 60 Min
Students level by grade: 8th
Standard(s) to be addressed:
Iowa Common Core standard: SS.68.PSCL.7

Understand constitutions protect individual rights and promote the

common good.

Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions targeted in this lesson (for units created using the
Understanding By Design framework only)

Learning Objectives for this lesson (Written using verbs from Blooms Taxonomy):
I know what are Rights
Identified student needs and plans for differentiation:

Students with IEPs

1. Some students require that text is read to them out loud. This
includes Instructions, articles, text on the board, etc.

Specific resources needed for this lesson:

1. Journal/BCS (http://www.kcci.com/news/high-school-opens-all-genderrestrooms/38146164)
2. Youtube video on N.Korea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGU_BrRlvB8)
3. Google.com
4. Laptop and Projector
5. Internet Connection
6. Board

Instructional method(s) used in this lesson:

Video watched

Paragraph writing

Brainstorming, background knowledge

Discussion, Critical Thinking, Comparison

Lesson Sequence:

We will do Journal/BCS (15 minutes)

1. Question: Do you know what it means I have rights? Ask the students to: Write

down in your notebook if they know what they rights are, and what rights are in
general. Have you ever thought about people living in other countries and their
rights? Write how you imagine rights are in other countries. (5 minutes to think
about) Students will write on board, brainstorm around the word Rights.
2. Watch Video on N.Korea (5 min) (Have students take notes during the video)
3. Students will write a paragraph on what they observed on the video and how some

of the rights in N.Korea differ from their own (15 minutes)

a. Individually work on the paragraph (5)
b. Talk to your neighbor/partner (5)
c. We will lead a discussion as a class about the video they just watched
d. I will use google.com, and type in people of New York. Then, I will
google people of North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. We will
then compare pictures of people n New York and North Korea/Saudi
Arabia and Aghanistan.
Ask the question:
What do you think if the rights differ for people living in the
countries we just looked up?
How do you think rights differ?
Why do we have rights and other not?
4. Discussion should lead to the idea that not everybody has the same rights in the
world.
5. I will read to the class an article of a woman in Afghanistan that
survived torture just because there is no law to protect her:
http://www.violenceisnotourculture.org/content/humas-story-forced-childmarriage-abuse-torture-escape

Differentiation:

Students will watch a video. During the video they will write down notes that
they later will use to write a paragraph explaining what they had observed.
(Watching video helps students who are visual learners)

Brainstorming: students will brainstorm using their background knowledge by

writing on board what they know about rights.

Writing in Journal: Students use journal writing to enhance their skill in

writing. This activity reinforces student writing because it encourages
students to think about what they just observed and also their background
knowledge.

Note Taking: Students will take notes during the video.

Discussion: Students will lead a discussion answering questions that are

pertinent to the lesson.

Compare and contrast: We will look up picture of people in different

countries, and students will compare and contrast their appearance. Students
will use critical thinking, observation skills and background knowledge trying
to determine if peoples rights differ just by observing pictures.