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Editor’s Note: This is the lesson that my talented student teacher, Kelsie Burnell, will be using in our ELL U.S. History class today – right before the student walkout. Bear in mind that many of our students will not be familiar with the history of school shootings in the U.S. I thought readers might find it useful and she agreed to let me share it here.
You might also be interested in A Compilation Of Resources To Support Student Organizing.
Lesson Plan
Developed by Kelsie Burnell
Warm-Up Question:
What does it mean to be a citizen? What does a “good” citizen do? Provide examples. Try to be specific.
Discussion
- Call on students to share their anwers
- Discuss what it means to be a citizen. Definition from dictionary.com, “An inhabitant of a city or town.”
- Ask students, “What do you think we should all be doing as citizens of Sacramento?” “What could being an “active” citizen look like?” “What should we not be doing?”
- Have students share with their elbow partners first
- Call on students to answer
-Introduce the idea of school shootings, pass out worksheet
-Show first video, ask students to write down their thoughts:
-Show second video
-Show third video
Next,
-Have students discuss what they saw and how they felt with their partner
-Explain the purpose of the walkout scheduled for today, and what it means for those seventeen lives lost
-Show the History of Protests video
Last,
-Students follow along during Read Aloud of President Obama’s 2016 Speech
-Students answer their questions on their worksheet about what it means to be a good citizen
-Students share with their partners and then share out as a class
-Show final video of Parkland students organizing
Brainstorm on the board:
-Ideas about how students can organize and show support for the students in Parkland and the safety of students and their families everywhere
-Ways to try to help avoid a school shooting on our own campus (What can students/parents/teachers/ staff/administration do to make our campus safe?)
Hi – Do you have the text to the read aloud? It just links back to the questions.
Thanks!
Oops, I’ll fix it now!