SHAKERAG ELEMENTARY DIFFERENTIATED LESSON PLANNING TEMPLATE

Stage 1: Desired Results (Use Georgia Performance Standards)

Teacher: Taylor Chaness
Grade/Subject: 3rd grade- Social Studies/Famous Americans
Time Period: 40 minutes
Strategy: Compare and Contrast
Differentiation: Content
Flexible Grouping Rationale: Readiness
Type(s) of Differentiation
Identify strategies used and modifications made for gifted
learners. (Must differentiate at least one area- content, process or
product.) Be specific.
Content
I am differentiating the content by providing different
reading passages about the famous Americans.

Method(s) of Differentiation
Identify strategies used and modifications made for gifted
learners. (Must differentiate at least one way- interest, readiness,
or learning style.) Be specific.
Interest

Process

Readiness

Product

Learning
Style

The texts will be leveled by lexiles.

Essential Question(s):
How did these famous Americans overcome social barriers, obstacles, and restrictions?
How did this person expand human rights and freedoms in a democracy?
How did this person help create/change the democracy we have today?
Knowledge and Skills (Objectives):
SS3H2-The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded peoples rights and freedoms in a democracy.
a-Paul Revere (Independence), Frederick Douglass( Civil Rights), Susan B, Anthony (Womans Rights), Mary McLeod Bethune
(Education), Franklin D Roosevelt (New Deal, WW II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations, Human Rights)m Thurgood Marshall
(Civil Rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society, Voting Rights), Cesar Chavez (Worker Rights)
b-Explain social barrios, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they over came
them.
HO/CTS3-The student conducts comparisons using criteria.
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Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Questions/Prompts:

1.) Compare and contrast how Susan B. Anthony and Mary Bethune expanded peoples rights and freedoms in a
democracy.
2.) Examine how Susan B. Anthony and Mary Bethune overcame social barriers.
3.) Identify how Susan B. Anthony and Mary Bethune changed democracy that we have today.
4.) Predict the impact these famous Americans had in history?
5.) What are some things you might do to build these character traits in yourself?
6.) In what ways could you show diligence in your own life?
Formative Assessment:
-graphic organizer
-Questioning
-Think Pair Share
Summarizing Strategy:

-Ticket out the door

Stage 3: Lesson Plan What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achieve the objectives?

Materials/Resources

Materials (preparation,
distribution and collection
procedures)

Handout 1: Criteria organizer

Handout 2: Visual organizer
Handout 3: Ticket out the door
Handout 4: Think Tac Toe
Reading Resources
Susan B. Anthony:

After Being Convicted of Voting video on www.LearnZillion.com

TeacherShare3rd GradeAmerican Heros Bundles and TestsSusan
B. Anthony
If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights By Anne Kamma lexile 750
Susan B. Anthony: Fighter For Womens Rights lvl J mini-book

Mary Bethune:

Mary McLeod Bethune (interactive notebook passage) grd 3

TeacherShare3rd GradeAmerican Heros Bundles and TestsMary
McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune lexile 750 Media Center
Mary McLeod Bethune: A GreatTeacher lexile 360 Media Center Minibook

Instruction Components

Anticipatory Set/
Motivator- connection to
prior experience

Procedure-Strategy and
differentiation

Closure (studentcentered, selfassessment/reflection,

metacognition)

Hook- (Think Pair Share with a partner) Why is it important to finish your work?
Have you ever worked diligently at something?
Procedure
Teacher Presentation and Guided Practice:
1.) Distribute books and resources on TWO famous Americans (based on Lexile
levels-- On, adv, acc ) Each student will get one resource to use.
2.) Independently read the resource and fill out the criteria organizer.
3.) Have students partner up with a classmate that has the other famous American.
3.) Together discuss what each learned about their famous American and fill in the
rest of the criteria organizer.
4.) Distribute the visual organizer. Groups of 4 will work together to complete
visual organizer. (2 for each American)
5.) In a class discussion, have each group share something that they learned about
the similarities and differences of their famous Americans.
6.) Closure- Independently fill out the ticket out the door which will include a
response to the following question, How did both famous Americans expand
peoples rights and freedoms in America?
7.) Independent Practice- Students will choose 3 Think Tac Toe Boxes in a row to
complete. Boxes will be leveled based on Blooms Taxonomy. They must do one
Level 1, one Level 2, and one Level 3.
8.) Extension- Students can complete more boxes from the Think Tac Toe.
(Optional-They can aim for a blackout and complete all boxes)