STEPP Lesson Plan Form

Teacher: Holly Beisner

School:

Rocky Mountain High School

Grade Level: 9-12

Content Area: History Of Rock & Roll

Title: Southern Rock and end of the 1970s

Lesson: #10

Content Standard(s) addressed by this lesson:

(Write Content Standards directly from the standard)

Theme 1: Culture
Theme 2: Time, Continuity, and Change
Theme descriptions can be found at the following website: http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands
Understandings: (Big Ideas)

Students will understand how southern rock came about in the 1970s and how it grew intro the major
subgenre we know it to be today.

Inquiry Questions: (Essential questions relating knowledge at end of the unit of instruction, select applicable
questions from standard)
What is southern rock and how did it influence the 1970s music scene.
Evidence Outcomes: (Learning Targets)
Every student will be able to: Explain the importance of southern rock to the many genres of the 1970s.
I can: I can explain who started southern rock and other bands incorporated into the genre.
This means: This means I understand the importance of southern rock and the bands that made up that genre in
the 1970s.

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List of Assessments: (Write the number of the learning target associated with each assessment)
*Intro listening to the Allman brothers and asking students what genre of music they believe this style of music to
be.
*Lecture going through songs and bands that are incorporated into the southern rock genre.
*Discussion to wrap up

Planned Lesson Activities

Name and Purpose of Lesson
Should be a creative title for you and the
students to associate with the activity.
Think of the purpose as the mini-rationale
for what you are trying to accomplish
through this lesson.
Approx. Time and Materials
How long do you expect the activity to last
and what materials will you need?
Anticipatory Set
The hook to grab students attention.
These are actions and statements by the
teacher to relate the experiences of the
students to the objectives of the lesson, To
put students into a receptive frame of
mind.
To focus student attention on the
lesson.
To create an organizing framework
for the ideas, principles, or
information that is to follow
(advanced organizers)
An anticipatory set is used any time a
different activity or new concept is to be

Southern Rock & Wrap up

This lesson will focus on the southern rock genre that began and blew
up in the 1970s. We will also use the remaining portion of this class
period to get ready for the unit exam that we will have on Monday.
This lesson will take the entire class and students will not need any
materials. All materials will be provided for them on the smart board.
Students will begin class by listening to Blue Sky a song by the
Allman Brothers, who are coined with starting the Southern Rock genre.
Students will be asked what genre they would put this song into. Then
after a couple minutes of discussion from the class I will introduce the
Southern Rock genre.

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introduced.

Procedures
(Include a play-by-play account of what
students and teacher will do from the
minute they arrive to the minute they
leave your classroom. Indicate the length
of each segment of the lesson. List actual
minutes.)
Indicate whether each is:
-teacher input
-modeling
-questioning strategies
-guided/unguided:
-whole-class practice
-group practice
-individual practice
-check for understanding
-other
Closure
Those actions or statements by a teacher
that are designed to bring a lesson
presentation to an appropriate conclusion.
Used to help students bring things
together in their own minds, to make

-Attendance
- Allman Brothers Song
-Lecture (teacher input)
- Class discussion/ links to music (modeling, teacher input, guided
group practice)
- Study time, trivia.

For closure of this lesson we will end by returning to the Allman

Brothers and watching some links to their first shows to show how they
played, what more of their sound was like and their background. We will
then move on into playing a trivia game where I ask questions that
could be on the test to help the class study.

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sense out of what has just been taught.
Any Questions? No. OK, lets move on is
not closure. Closure is used:
To cue students to the fact that
they have arrived at an important
point in the lesson or the end of a
lesson.
To help organize student learning
To help form a coherent picture and to
consolidate.
Differentiation
To modify: If the activity is too advanced
for a child, how will you modify it so that
they can be successful?
To extend: If the activity is too easy for a
child, how will you extend it to develop
their emerging skills?
Assessment
How will you know if students met the
learning targets? Write a description of
what you were looking for in each
assessment.

Differentiation will come in the form of a guided note taker, where

students will be prompted with key points from the lecture so they do
not miss anything.

Students will only be assessed on the exam from this lecture. The
essential question from this lecture will be included as a test question
so that will be their final assessment of Southern Rock.

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Post Lesson Reflection

1. To what extent were lesson objectives achieved? (Utilize
assessment data to justify your level of achievement)
The lesson objective will be assessed by every student through a test
question the following class day.

2. What changes, omissions, or additions to the lesson would

you make if you were to teach again?
In doing this lesson again I would save a separate day to do the trivia,
it seemed really helpful for most students and since we only had one
class to do the game as well as lecture on Southern Rock we were a
little rushed at the end.
3. What do you envision for the next lesson? (Continued practice,
reteach content, etc.)
The next class period will be used as the exam, then we will begin the
1980s unit.

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