SADIE lesson plan template –

INSTRUCTIONAL UNIT
TEACHER DATE: GRADE 8 LESSON
(your name): 2-8-16 Acquisition TITLE:
Rhonna Level: The
Emerging Transcontinental
Expanding Railroad
Bridging
LESSON
OBJECTIVE:
SUBJECT: Students will be
Social Studies able to discuss
and analyze the
immigration of
Chinese
Americans as
well as devise
solutions to the
pushback of
growing cultural
diversity.

LANGUAGE STANDARDS AND CONTENT OBJECTIVES

CONTENT​ STANDARD Interpretive
Identify the new sources of
large-scale immigration and the
contributions of immigrants to the
building of cities and the economy;
explain the ways in which new
social
and economic patterns encouraged
assimilation of newcomers into the
mainstream
amidst growing cultural diversity;
and discuss the new wave of
nativism

Collaborative Productive
 ADAPTATIONS FOR LEARNERS
MODIFICATIONS RATIONALE REFLECTION
FOR ELL
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ASSESSMENT
STRATEGY FOR ASSESSMENT

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, and TECHNOLOGY NEEDED

INTO, THROUGH, and BEYOND

INTO RATIONALE REFLECTION
Motivation
Get them thinking about
Connect to prior personal experiences to
knowledge feel connected to the
“Where is your family topic.
from and why did they
come here?”

Interactive activity Allows students to

Picture file of the visualize the experience
building of the
railroad.

Interactive activity This allows the students

Anticipation/reaction to make inferences with
with the picture file each other and talk
everything through
THROUGH RATIONALE REFLECTION
(Using the text to
teach a concept)

Have the students

read the article in
pairs, “Chinese
Immigrants and the
Building of
Transcontinental
Railroad.”

Check for
understanding This will allow students
the time to process the
Interactive activity information at their
Stop and Think- Have individual levels. They
students read the will then learn to
article with a partner. different thinking
While they are strategies. Allowing
reading, give them a them to self reflect for
cue to “stop and comprehension.
think”.

Interactive activity This will allow all

Vocabulary Cards students to use context
Making cards for clues and previous
words the teacher knowledge to figure out
provides a list of the definition of the
words that all students words given.
need to make.
-grueling
-aqueducts
-rooted out
-unreliable
- discriminatory
-barred
Then while reading,
students use context
clues to define the
words with a partner.

BEYOND RATIONALE REFLECTION

Demonstrates
knowledge of concept
Interactive activity Assess students’
Write a letter- understanding by
Students will write a giving them the
letter with the opportunity to interpret
mindset that they are the immigrants’
a Chinese immigrant experiences.
writing to their
family back at home.
They will describe
the conditions and
their experiences.

Interactive activity
Problem/Solution Students will articulate
Chart- in partners, problems and solution
students determine the to the historical
biggest 2 problems situation. They will
and think of possible also debate different
solutions to these solutions based on
problems. Students today’s resources and
will think of a solution advancements.
that is possible in that
day and another
solution that could
happen today, with all
of the new resources
we have.