Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Teachers: Subject:
Aaron Romero Middle School American History
Common Core State Standards:
 7.H1.1 Analyze the rise and decline, interactions between, and blending of cultures and societies.
Objective (Explicit):
 Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the Battle of Little Big Horn by identifying cultural and
geographic factors, as well as analyzing their impact on the results of the battle
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
 Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
 Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
 Assign value to each portion of the response.

Identify and analyze how factors/culture/societies played a role in the battle

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

 How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
 What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
 How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?
Identify differences and main traits between groups
Compare and contrast groups and factors
Speculate about the clash and encounter
Key vocabulary: Materials:
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)

Opening question pertaining to modern day activism or multiculturism, or question

about foreign policy and clash of nations in history.
Instructional Input

Students will be presented with the scenario of the battle as a definitive event and must speculate the
results and encounter based on factors they were provided.
They are provided general knowledge and specific factors of both factions to observe and analyze.
Student applies previous knowledge to solve problem and speculate conclusion of the battle.
Practice
Guided

1
 Teacher will facilitate while students observe
traits from both groups and use this
information to speculate how the traits
individually and collectively influenced the
encounter.
Independent practice

The Instructor brings the class back together,

and instructor addresses the speculations and
conclusions the students reached. Instructor
presents what occurred and how factors
played a role in the battle.

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

 How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
 Why will students be engaged?

They can apply knowledge to present foreign policy and further scrutinize interactions
between groups by both identifying factors and interests. Students can reflect on the
encounter and suggest how things could have been different, what alternative strategies
could have been conducted.