2. Analyze The Learner
My classroom consists of 10th grade American History. 10
boys 11 girls. A rural county in West Virginia.
I chose this type of class because WV has been exploited for
it’s resources much how Great Britain had planned to exploit
North America for it’s natural resources, and my students
might respond to that.
I also believe that the students could possibly relate to how
the colonist’s felt. Living isolated and far from their neighbors,
and opposing strong central government like many
conservatives feel.
3. Objectives
My students will demonstrate an understanding of the history
preceding and following the Colonial American time period.
My students will acquire this mastery by watching
documentaries about the time period, reading letters from the
era, working in groups to read other primary sources from the
area, roleplaying as people living in the time period, and by
studying works of art from the era.
80% of my students will have mastery of the subject by the
end of this week.
4. Schedule
Monday: Talk about goals. Learning targets. Talk about the
significance. Why am I teaching you guys this? Why is it
important? What do you already know? Also discuss the
need for colonization by Great Britain. Watch a movie about
the voyage to America, take notes and answer questions
during the movie.
Tuesday: Native Americans- Discuss with students the
impact Native Americans had on early settlers to North
America. Separate the class into groups and assign them
letters from colonists from the time in order to give them a
real feeling for what the colonist’s struggled with, and help
give them an insight as to how the colonist’s lived their lives.
5. Schedule
Wednesday: Give the class a short lecture about the French
and Indian Civil War breaking out. Explain how and why the
war broke out. use art from the era in order to create a
visualization of the things that happened in the war.
Thursday: Tax the internet and the American Revolution.
Lecture how Great Britain required compensation by taxing
many of their goods as reparations from the war. Correlate it
to taxing the internet every time someone connects a device
to wifi, and explain that’s how the colonist’s must have felt.
Ask the class to write a letter to their internet provider, or
Great Britain in order to discuss their unhappiness with this
new law. Talk about how this leads into the American
Revolution
Friday: Summarize the end of the American Revolution and
ask students to reflect on their progress and what they have
learned. Also answer any questions they may have.
6. Use of Technology
Being constrained with technology, I chose archaic forms of
technology because not only do I feel that using these
technologies are more efficient to teach history, but the class
that I chose did not have may resources available to me.
I used several primary sources, role playing though letter
writing, art, and documentaries as technologies in my
classroom.
