LESSON PLANS

Mr. Berger
Week of 9.2.2014-9.5.2014
Week 1 Get to Know You

Day Mon. 9-2 Tues. 9-3 Wed. 9-4 Thurs. 9-5 Fri. 9-6
Learning
Target (s)
NO
SCHOOL
I can explain key class rules
and procedures.
I can reflect on how my
background has shaped me.
I can help build a class
community of respect.
I can identify and describe
the class themes of
freedom, agency, and
empathy.
I can analyze and discuss
how freedom and agency
relate to a current event
(Ferguson).
I can analyze and discuss how
freedom and agency relate to
a current event (Ferguson)
(cont.)
I can take class diagnostic
exam. (probably move to
Mon.)
Learning
Activities
LABOR
DAY
1 Do Now Student Survey
(located at students desks)
(10 mins.)
Think-Pair-Share with one
other person and share out
(5 mins.)
2 Intro. Of myself and class
rules and key procedures
(20-25 mins.)
3- Watch videos of students
in different classrooms
answer questions in small
groups re: videos have
class discussion re: videos
(15 mins. + 10 mins.
Discussion time 25 mins.)
4 Wrap up one word
how do you feel?
1. Do Now Journal - What is
one important thing that has
happened so far in your life?
(10 minutes)
2. Hook students interest
with Where Im From video
(what are some things
these folks say?) (5 minutes)
3. Reading first Where Im
From poem aloud as class (5
minutes)
4. How to create
categories/reading of my
Where Im From poem (10
mins.)
4. Students create lists (10
mins.)
5. Show how to turn lists into
poem students start
working on their Where Im
1. What does freedom
mean to you? Should
freedom have limits?
(journaling) + discussion (15
mins.)
2. Show definitions of
freedom, agency, and
empathy have groups
generate examples (15
mins.)
3. Introduce Current Event
Michael Brown and
Ferguson, MO
read aloud as class what
happened (10 mins.)
whole class
discussion (20
mins.)
4. Wrap up tomorrow we
will finish with Michael
1. Do Now How are you
feeling about the end of your
first week as an eighth grader?
Rose and thorn (10 mins.)
2. J. Cole song re: Ferguson (5-7
mins.)
3. Small groups re: Ferguson
(20 mins.)
4. Activism what can we do?
throw out to small groups
(15-20 mins.)
**time permitting: have each
group pick an article to read
and discuss
5. Groups share out/class
discussion back to freedom and
agency (20 mins.)
(Where Im From poems)
From poems (play jazz) Brown situation journal
what does Michael Brown
situation have to do with
freedom and agency?
Instructional
Materials
Needed
1. Student survey (teacher
created)
2. Rules/procedures
powerpoint (teacher
created)
3. Rules/procedures guided
notes(teacher created)
4. Video discussion questions
(teacher created)
5. Videos (listed below)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=15-qWMHuja8
(DC HS Social Studies)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=BKjf5rN1gb0
(Taylor Delhagen)
Understanding Empathy
Delhagen
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ZMocKxaifak
1. PPT
2. Digable Planets Where Im
From video
https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=sl-pjb7y3y0
3. George Ella Lyon Where
Im From handout
4. Mr. Berger Where Im
From poem
5. Student notebooks
1. Syllabus
2. ADL Ferguson, MO lesson
plan located at
http://www.adl.org/assets/
pdf/education-
outreach/what-is-
happening-in-ferguson-
mo.pdf
3. RSA Short power of
empathy
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
1. ADL Ferguson, MO lesson
plan located at
http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf
/education-outreach/what-is-
happening-in-ferguson-mo.pdf
2. J Cole Ferguson song AND
lyrics for students
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=uF1HpYipSuY
Use of EAA
technology
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
HW Get rules/procedures sheet
and syllabus SIGNED by a
parent
Where Im From poem due
FRIDAY
Where Im From poem due
FRIDAY