Topic/Title of Lesson:

Course Name and Grade Level(s):

Date:

Theme or Question for Lesson: Which of your overall course themes or questions for your history class will be emphasized?

Content Standard(s): Which of the grade-level appropriate California History-Social Science Standards are addressed in your lesson?

Language objective for ELL students: (TPE 1,7) How will you meet the language needs of your ELL students?

Key Vocabulary/Academic Language for Lesson: What vocabulary words will be incorporated into your lesson? What academic language used by historians will be incorporated into your lesson (i.e., historical interpretation, primary documentation, historiography, critical analysis, etc.)?

Learning Objectives: What should students know and be able to do to demonstrate mastery of this concept/standard? Should be written as SWBAT… (must be observable/measurable/assessable) (TPE 1)

Timeline:  How will today’s lesson fit into a larger content unit?

Interdisciplinary component:  How and where will you use other disciplines in the lesson plan – geography, music, art, literature, etc?

Prior knowledge/personal experience: What strategies will you use to link the students' prior knowledge and/or personal experience to this lesson?

Accommodations for special needs-accelerated learners: (TPE 4,5): How will you adjust and differentiate this lesson to accommodate unique learning needs of your students?

Resources/Materials and or technology needed for this lesson: (TPE 4,9)  What resources and materials will  you need to teach this lesson? 

Lesson Plan Content
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks to Support Student Learning
(TPE 1,4,5,6,9,10)

On a separate piece of paper, please include the content for each of the following parts of your lesson plan:

• Introduction. How will you link the focus and content of yesterday's lesson with the focus and content of today's lesson? In other words, how will you continue the story you are telling?
• Hook.  How will you introduce the lesson in a way that “hooks” student interest by making it interesting and relevant to their lives?
• Transition:  How will you connect the hook directly to the lesson content?
• Lesson Content. (Corresponds with BTSA requirements for “outcomes,” “teaching strategies,” “asking critical questions,” and “language focus.”)  What is the complete content of your lesson?
  
  
  • Content (BTSA “teaching strategies”) - Will students complete a silent, group, or class reading assignment; be involved in a lecture/discussion and take notes; watch a movie; hear a guest speaker; participate in a debate?  You must include the full content of your lecture and/or summarize the reading material, movie, debate content and format, and information provided by the guest speaker, etc. 
  • Class discussion  (BTSA “critical questions”)
     - What analytical questions will you ask students during the content discussion, after the movie, reading, or guest speaker? 
    
  • In-class activities (BTSA “language focus”)
     - What required map exercises and primary documents will be used?  Will you use music, artistic interpretations, biography, literature?  Will there be a vocabulary and literacy component? 
    
  • Themes/Questions (BTSA “outcomes”)  - How does the lesson content illustrate the overall course themes? 
    
    
• Conclusion. How will you conclude your lesson in a manner that emphasizes the course theme(s) or  question(s)in today's lesson? What work will students complete at home and how long should it take?
• Assessment. (TPEs 2, 3 and corresponds with BTSA requirement for “assessments.”) How will you assess your student's attainment of the learning objectives and understanding of the course theme(s) or question(s)?
• Bibliography.  What bibliographical resources did you use?  (include a full bibliography)

At home work: Please describe any work to be done at home and approximate time it will take:

Assessment: (TPCs 2,3, and corresponds with BTSA requirements for "assessments") How will you assess your students' attainment of the larning objectives? How will you assess your students' understanding of the course themes or questions?