Teacher: Michelle Hochmuth School: Hackett Middle School
Grade: 8 U.S. History Time Period: 43 minutes
Unit: Industrial Revolution
Lesson Topic: Document Analysis and Project Explanation
Date(s): Day 6
Lesson Objectives:
1. Students will analyze the components of a political cartoon, news-reel skit, propaganda poster, and a poem through visuals and classroom discussion.
New York State Standards:
Standard 1, Intermediate 4, Key Idea 2: Students will understand how different experiences, beliefs, values, traditions, and motives cause individuals and groups to interpret historic events and issues from different perspectives.
Activities:
1. Students will complete the P.O.D: (3 minutes)
Explain why workers organized during the Industrial Revolution.
Ans: Workers began organizing because they wanted better and safer working conditions in factories, they wanted equal pay for equal work, they wanted less hours at work, and they wanted to end child labor.
2. Groups will be assigned and predetermined (Groups will only be different from stations groups if needed). (2 minutes)
3. The group folders and project guidelines will be distributed for students to follow along during the power point presentation and examples. Students will be informed they are to choose 1 of 4 of the project options.
4. Students will be given lyrics and listen to a rap (U.S. History Express Presentations) about the Industrial Revolution. Students will listen to a You-Tube clip of a student’s rap about immigration. Elements of each will be examined. (5 minutes)
5. Students will be shown original posters that were made by unions and elements will be examined (5 minutes)
6. Students will be shown an actual and student-drawn political cartoon and elements of the political cartoons will be examined. (5 minutes)
7. Students will watch pieces of a You-Tube clip of other students performing a news-reel skit about history and elements of the skit will be examined. (5 minutes)
8. Students will be informed that they will complete a rough draft for their project first, which will be reviewed, and then students will be able to proceed to the final draft on a poster board.
9. Students will be informed they have the option to video tape themselves reciting the speech, the rap/poem/song, or news skit either at lunch or after school.
10. Students will be explained the expectations for classroom management and cleanup (classroom clean-up checklist will be hung in the classroom)
11. Students will have the opportunity to ask questions (2-10 minutes)
12. Any remaining time students will spend discussing with their group about possible project ideas. Students will need to know which project they will be working on and will be given exact guidelines/checklists to follow. Once the group chooses the project option, the checklist and rubric will be provided. The specific project checklists and rubric will be stapled to the inside of the project folders.