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Lesson Plan #4-Gr. 6 ELA
Topic-Action Heroes/Superheroeswhats the
difference?
Lesson Description: This lesson will get students to start to
think about what
action heroes are compared to Super Heroes, and learn about one
action hero in
particular: Harriet Tubman
Objectives:
Knowledge: Students will learn about
real action heroes that fight issues in a
meaningful way.
Assessment/Evaluation
-listening activity
Skills/Abilities: Students will write in a
different format: a poem
-writing assignment handed in(based
on rubric made for finished portfolio
pieces)Affective: Students will try to see the
actions of others in another light
Materials: true false cards, the last safe house
CELS: COM, CCT, PSVS
Prerequisite Learnings: what are stereotypes
Set:
-get some students to
share answers and who are
some of their heroes.
WMW: what is a hero to you 5 min
Development: -what does someone have to do to make them
a hero?
-divide board into 2, put headings
superheroes and action heroes at the top,
next break each into similarities/differences
-get students to think in contexts of what each
does(who is the action for? Self/others, does itsolve a problem,
what are the needs in the
community, is there always a right way to
solve a problem? Attitudes of
right/wrong/good/evil and the complexity of
someone )
10
min
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Ask if students think
harriet tubman would be
considered a hero? Why
(rose out of circumstances,
stood up for what shebelieved in, saw an
injustice, DID something)
Read pg 20-21 of the last safe house
Tell about the time, and how the south was at
the time, how people viewed black people.
-Play Slavery Trivia Game
-when students are done, they can begin
working on their writing projects(give a
student a sheet of ideas/leave example of own
work so students can see format)
10
min
30
minClosure: Get some students(volunteers) to share some
of their writing
Professional Goals: During the reading, try to catch students
attention
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True orfalse: the underground railroad was a set of train that
allowed black people to get a freeride to Canada.
True or false: Opponents of slavery allowed their homes, called
stations, to be used as placeswhere escaped slaves were provided
with food, shelter and money.
True orfalse: close to 300 people worked on the underground
railroad. (3000)
Trueor false: stations were approximately 20 miles apart
True or false: Slaves travelled the entire journey by
walking
True or false: the entire usa promoted slavery, and slaves were
not free until they
reached Canada.
True or false: bounty hunters were people that found and sold
slaves.
Trueof false: by the middle of the 1800s over 50 000 slaves had
used the
underground railway.
True or false: anyone who helped a slave or did not turn them
into the authoritiescould be put in prison.
True or False: Slaves travelled by day so that no one would know
that they were
trying to escape
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RUE
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FALS
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