Lessonplanday 5
Lessonplanday 5
Subject/ Topic/ Theme The American War in Vietnam: Movements, Music and Media
I. Objectives
How does this lesson connect to the unit plan?
This lesson will shed light on the domestic movements that were occurring during the Vietnam era, such as the anti-war movement, hippies, civil rights and the
counterculture as a whole. In addition, this lesson will also show how the media helped shape public perception of the war.
cognitiveR U Ap An E C*
Identify various movements that were occurring during the Vietnam era.
Analyze and evaluate the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
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Common Core standards (or GLCEs if not available in Common Core) addressed:
1. 6.2.1 Growth of US Global Power.
2. 8.2.1 Demographic Changes
3. 8.2.2 Policy Concerning Domestic Issues
4. 8.2.3 Comparing Domestic Issues
5. 8.2.4 Domestic Conflicts and Tensions
6. 8.3.1 Civil Rights Movement
7. 8.3.5 Tensions and Reactions to Poverty and Civil Rights
8. K1.10 Understand significant concepts, generalizations, principles, and theories of civics as a
discipline
(Note: Write as many as needed. Indicate taxonomy levels and connections to applicable national or state standards. If an objective applies to particular learners
write the name(s) of the learner(s) to whom it applies.)
*remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create
Attendance to all the preceding lessons would be ideal, but for this particular lesson it is not absolutely
required.
Pre-assessment (for learning): The metacognitive warm up exercise will allow students to self-assess as well as
find gaps in their knowledge.
Outline assessment
activities
(applicable to this lesson)
Formative (for learning): Self-assessment occurs through small group discussion and reflection
Formative (as learning): I assess based on their participation in group discussion.
Summative (of learning): I will assess the cumulative transference of knowledge through a final essay
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Materials-what materials
(books, handouts, etc) do
you need for this lesson
and are they ready to
use?
The room will be set up the same way it has been the previous days: six pods with the students sitting
at the same pod they have been the previous days.
How will your classroom
be set up for this lesson?
35 min
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Component
s
Motivation
(opening/
introduction
/
engagement
)
Developme
nt
(the largest
component
or main
body of the
lesson)
5 min
Closure
(conclusion,
culmination
, wrap-up)
Your reflection about the lesson, including evidence(s) of student learning and engagement, as well as ideas for improvement
for next time. (Write this after teaching the lesson, if you had a chance to teach it. If you did not teach this lesson, focus on the
process of preparing the lesson.)
This lesson was both fun and difficult to plan. Ideally, I would teach an entire week on just 1960s culture, but I cannot. Finding a way
to compress all of the Vietnam-era movements, music and changes in media was rather arduous, but I felt it was important to spend
time on this topic rather than focus entirely on the events of the war. In the future, I would like to devote an entire lesson to each
movement and delve into great detail rather than just give a brief overview.
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