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Lesson Day 1 Day 2 (English Day 3 (Social Studies) Day Day 5

Component Language Arts) 4

Standard Math 6.5: Comprehension 8.9 History. The student Sci. Reteach

skills: listening, understands the effects

speaking, reading, of Reconstruction on the

writing, and thinking political, economic, and

using multiple texts. social life of the nation

The student uses (Resources, 2020).

metacognitive skills to

both develop and

deepen comprehension

of increasingly complex

texts. The student is

expected to:

6.5.I: monitor

comprehension and

make adjustments such

as re-reading, using

background knowledge,

asking questions, and

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annotating when

understanding breaks

down (Achieve3000,

2020)

Essential Would you fight against Why is it important for

Question inequality even if you everyone to vote?

could be punished for

it?

Objective I can summarize a I can explain the 15

biography. amendment and its

importance

Exit ticket Summarize ​Goodbye, “What was the purpose

Nelson Mandela​ in a of the Fifteenth

five sentence paragraph. Amendment? How did

(Achieve3000) this amendment affect

the lives of African

Americans in the North

and in the South?

Support your response

with information from

the lesson”
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(Achieve3000, 2020)

Highest controversial enforce​ (verb)

leverage (adjective) to force people to obey

vocabulary/ causing people to argue something by making it

word wall icon​ (noun) the law

somebody who is guarantee​ (verb)

widely admired to promise

negotiate​ (verb) intimidate​ (verb)

to work out an to frighten

agreement jurisdiction ​(noun)

oppression​ (noun) area of control

the state of being literacy ​(adjective)

controlled and treated having to do with

unfairly by someone or reading and writing

something else poll ​(noun)

segregate​ (verb) to a place where you go to

keep one person or vote

group apart from ratify ​(verb)

anotherPlay Stop to give formal approval

violence (noun) to something

acts that can hurt segregate​ (verb)

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someone or something to force one group to be

(Achieve3000, 2020) kept apart from another

group, often based on

race (Achieve3000,

2020)

Texts for Goodbye Nelson Equal Rights for All

lessons Mandela ​(880L) Men

(Achieve3000, 2020) (Achieve3000, 2020)

Digital 5 Step Lesson 5 Step Lesson

resource Teacher key to video

question set

Student video question

set

Reconstruction | The

Vote

(Smith, 2019)

Key points Nelson Mandela, South The Fifteenth

Africa's first black Amendment to the

president, died on Constitution was ratified

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December 5, 2013, at in 1870, when the U.S.

the age of 95. was struggling to recover

from a war that had

Mandela was born in destroyed its unity. The

1918, the son of a tribal Fifteenth Amendment

chief. He grew up at a was part of the

time when virtually all Reconstruction

of Africa was under Amendments, a series of

European colonial rule. measures designed to

help create a country in

Mandela worked as a which all men,

policeman and a boxer, regardless of race,

and he also studied law. enjoyed equal rights.

In 1944, he began This amendment

working against guaranteed the right to

apartheid, laws that vote to all men,

segregated schools, regardless of race or

housing, and job color.

opportunities. To the disappointment of

many, the Fifteenth

In 1962, Mandela was Amendment said nothing

arrested. In 1964, he about women voting, and

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was convicted of did not outlaw poll taxes

treason and sentenced or literacy tests. The

to life imprisonment. literacy tests succeeded

in keeping many African

He was released from Americans--even those

prison in 1990 and who were literate--from

helped negotiate an end voting.

to white minority rule The Fifteenth

in South Africa. Amendment meant that

African-American men

In 1993, Mandela was had equal rights to vote.

selected to receive the Still, there were

Nobel Peace Prize. He problems. White

was elected president in Southerners who

South Africa's first opposed the amendment

all-race election the formed the Ku Klux

following year and Klan, a group that

remained president until devoted itself to

retirement in 1999 intimidating African

(Achieve3000, 2020) Americans in order to

keep them from voting.

It would take decades for

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African Americans to

receive true equality, but

the Fifteenth

Amendment helped

make that happen

(Achieve3000, 2020).

Student Students can be Students may struggle

misconcepti confused by supporting with the chronology of

ons details. Keep students events- struggling

on track. After one full readers may need to use

reading to students (to a lower lexile to read

model fluency) ask therefor loosing some

students to highlight content. Model the first

main idea sentences of answer in the graphic

each paragraph. Model organizer for students

the first paragraph with and explain your

them or for them and thinking as you go.

show them what a main

idea sentence looks like

and where it can

normally be found.
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Re-teach/ The article is available Use a timeline with date

scaffolded in English and Spanish and have students fill in

learning for students to the information on what

understand in a happened on the dates in

bilingual setting. the time line. This can

Graphic Organizer for aid struggling readers to

main ideas find meaning in the

passage.

Graphic Organizer for

main ideas