Humanities+Lesson+Plan

For this assignment, you will be creating a document that is half lesson plan and half curriculum rationale. It is not //just another lesson plan//, nor is it a reflection paper. It is a hybrid document; a chance to illustrate you can envision incorporating the humanities into your teaching and that you can articulate why the humanities are an integral component of high-quality social studies instruction.

INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS

 * describe the topic for this lesson
 * the course it would be taught in
 * where in the scope & sequence of the course would it fit best (identify a unit)
 * what your students will be able to **understand** and be able to **do** after this lesson(s); __be specific with those words__
 * why use the humanities? the case should be made using references from any of the readings for this module on the wiki AND/OR supplemental readings you find on your own (or have read in other classes, as many of you seem to have previously studied graphic novels, for example)
 * this is __not__ choosing random standards from the Michigan GLCE/HSCE documents and list them
 * identify **three** specific standards from either the GLCE ([|GLCES.pdf]) or HSCE ([|HSCE.pdf]) and explain how your humanities-oriented lesson(s) will respond to those standards. Explain how the use of humanities will complement the standard. But do __not__ spend time justifying the standards on their own merit.
 * next, identify skills from pages 60-61 from the [|Common Core Standards] that your lesson(s) helps students build and explain how you will help students work on these skills.

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION

 * describe how you envision teaching your lesson
 * outline the "body" of your lesson - what would students do first, second, and third
 * you don't have to replicate a //lesson plan template// with a bellringer, hook, etc; instead, you are describing the entirety of your lesson. "First, I or the students will... Next, we transition by ...."
 * analyze your materials - describe the actual "humanities content"
 * if it's music, describe the music and explain why you are using it in the lesson
 * if it will be a set of episodes from a TV series, defend why students will be watching TV for school, etc.

**Drafts due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 27**
 * Your paper should be four full pages, single-spaced, with emphasis on certain areas you are more interested to write about. Please share these with me (helmsing@gmail.com) through Google Docs. You can choose for the document to be public or private - but any comments I (or others) make will be viewable.**