Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan

Name: Ted Barringer

Subject: Social Studies

Grade: 8

Unit: N.C./US 1820-1839

Lesson Title: President Andrew Jackson

Objectives

Investigate who Andrew Jackson was, his Presidency,

and why he is controversial even to this day.

1. PowerPoint
Materials &
Resources

2. Jackson Handout
3. Jackson Webquest
4. Battle of New Orleans Song (on powerpoint)

Anticipatory
Set

Objective

1. Ask students what they already know about Andrew

Jackson (7th President, on the $20.00 bill,
Democrat, first everday man president

Through an investigation of Jackson from the

powerpoint and webquest, students will discover who
Jackson was and why he remains a controversial figure
to this day.
Students will form an opinion on whether Jackson
should be on the $20.00 bill or is it right to replace him

with Harriet Tubman.

Input (What
students already
know.)

Model (How will

you demonstrate
skills?)

Guided
Practice

Check for
Understandin
g

Closure

They know from our study of JQ Adams, that Jackson

succeeded him as the 7th President. He is a Democrat.
He was the first self-made man President. (From the
lesson on the election of 1824) They know he was a
slaveholder.

We will review the PowerPoint about the basic facts

about Jackson.

The teacher will pass out the Webquest project for the
students to work on in class what they do not or are
unable to complete will be considered homework, due
tomorrow.

As the students work on the webquest, the teacher will

move around the class answering any questions and
checking to be sure the students are on task. During
the last ten minutes of class, the teacher and students
will answer some of the more difficult Webquest
questions.

Tomorrow we will discover what was happening in N.C.

during the 1820s through the first part of the Jackson

administration.
Play the Johnny Horton song The Battle of New
Orleans

Independent
Practice

Students will write a paragraph or more about whether

or not Jackson should have been replaced on the
$20.00 bill.

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N.C. Essential Standards

8.H.1.3 Use primary and secondary sources to interpret various historical perspectives.
8.H.1.5 Analyze the relationship between historical context and decision-making.
8.H.3.1 Explain how migration and immigration contributed to the development of North Carolina
and the United States from colonization to contemporary times (e.g. westward movement, African
slavery, Trail of Tears, the Great Migration and Ellis and Angel Island).