Development of Democratic Ideas

Teacher: Dana RossSchool: NorthHigh School

Content Area Standard:
Social Studies
World History 10.1.2 / Trace the development of Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, drawing from selections from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics.
Literacy Standard: / Grade 9/10 Reading: 2.0 Reading Comprehension
Instructional Objectives
  • Definition of what is to be taught and learned
/ Students will learn about the developmental process of Western political thought by creating a Time Sequence Pattern organizer of events that follows the progress of democratic ideas from 600 B.C. in Greece to 1850 A.D in France.
Curriculum
  • Lesson Content
/ Rise of Democratic Ideas
Instructional Delivery
  • Procedures
  • Strategies
/ Nonlinguistic Representation – Graphic Organizers(Post-Reading Strategy)
(Marzano, Pickering, Pollock, p. 76)
  1. Students create a Time Sequence Pattern organizer (timeline) based on reading from text to illustrate the development of democratic ideas.
  2. Events should be placed in chronological order on a straight line that begins with 600 B.C. and ends with 1850 A.D.

Evidence/Assessment / Students will be assessed on finished products followed by a “Which Came First” quiz. Quiz will provide a list of pairs; students will be asked to indicate which event in the pairs occurred first.
Accommodations
  • Reading difficulties
  • Advanced learners
  • English learners
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  1. Reading difficulties/English Learners: Teacher will develop a list of events with class input. Students will construct timeline from list.
  2. Reading difficulties/English Learners: Students will develop list of events in cooperative groups of varying abilities
  3. Reading difficulties/Eng. Learners: Students will be instructed to illustrate events.
  4. Advanced Learners: Students will be instructed to write an essay explaining which event, in their opinion, had the most impact on Modern democratic thought and why.

Text
Instructional Materials /
  1. Textbook (Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell, pp. 6 – 27)
  2. Excerpts from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics