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[8th Grade] [8th Grade Assignment Sheets] Language Arts] Math] Science] Social Studies] Social Studies Unit Plan] Day 1] 2] 3] 4] 5] 6] 7] [8] 9] 10]

Subject: ** Social Studies Major leaders of the war, weapons, and Socratic Seminar 8th grade
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Focus attention: 5 Minutes Modeling: 10 minutes Student Engagement: 23 minutes Closure: 2 minutes
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The overall goal of today’s lesson is for the students to be able to verbalize what they have learned. Another goal is for the students to get a better understanding of what the life of a soldier was like, given their weapons and leaders.
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//1.C.3d // Summarize and make generalizations from content and relate them to the purpose of the material. 4.A.3a Demonstrate ways(e.g., ask probing questions, provide feedback to a speaker, summarize and paraphrase complex spoken message) that listening attentively can improve comprehension.
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The students will be able to demonstrate what they have learned thus far in a Socratic seminar.
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-Textbook -Reading strategy sheets -Power point of pictures of leaders/weapons
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1. The students will journal about the following prompt for 5 minutes: I think the most destructive weapon in all of history is… (Focus) 2. If yesterday’s activity of reading both sections 1 & 2 was not completed, have students continue popcorn reading aloud and working on their reading strategy sheets to finish up. 3. The students will get in a large circle and conduct a Socratic seminar. Here, the students will be in charge of the discussion of the 2 sections; the teacher will only jump in to direct the discussion if nobody is talking. This should mostly be a student-centered discussion. (Engagement) 4. The teacher will pull up a few slides of the major weapons and leaders of this war to add to the discussion. (model) 5. On a piece of notebook paper, students will answer 3 “What” questions: What did I learn today? So what? (How is this important?) and Now what? (How does this relate to our unit outcomes?) This will be collected before they leave the classroom. (Closure)
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Informal assessment is demonstrated through the Socratic seminar to show whether the students have comprehended their readings.
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A formal assessment to be graded for 3 points is the “3 What” questions to make sure the students were paying attention and can display what they learned.

Gifted students may be asked to be the discussion leaders to get the discussion rolling and perhaps ask questions to the rest of the class.
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