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10 Grade Diversity Lesson Plan: Teacher: Date
10 Grade Diversity Lesson Plan: Teacher: Date
Materials
The book (The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi)
The Map from page 12-13 (Handout given by teacher)
Writing Materials (pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils)
Sheets of white paper (for notes)
Key Terms sheet (given by teacher)
5 Critical Thinking Question Handout (given by teacher after
students read)
Standards
CCR.ELA- Literacy. RH.1.2- Cite specific textual evidence to support
analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the
date and origin of the information.
Objectives
I. Students will be able to examine and break The Lone Samurai into
parts by identifying motives or causes while making inferences and to
find evidence to answer the critical thinking questions.
II. The students will analyze the text and dissect the information in the text
to take part in the group discussion to make sure they achieve a 90%
accuracy of the text and questions with the text.
III. The students will exhibit their knowledge through the critical thinking
questions and the group activity.
IV. Their accuracy of knowledge will be determined through a group
discussion with the class and they will have to show they answered the
activity questions correctly, with 90% accuracy.
Procedure
1. Introduce: The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi by
William Scott Wilson. The ask the students, “What was Feudal Japan,
and what do you think about Samurai culture?”
2. Read: The first chapter of The Lone Samurai individually.
3. Discuss: I will pass out the 5 critical thinking question handout and test
the student’s knowledge of the first chapter of The Lone Samurai and
the vocabulary sheet I gave out.
Multicultural goal
1. The goal for my students will be for them to evaluate and understand
the culture of Japan and what was happening at that point in time from
a persons POV.
Observable objective
Students will have the comprehension of the daily life of Japan and
after this they will be quizzed on what they had learned from the
readings.