Stage 3 Learning Plan and Unit Calendar
Week 1
Entrance Slip: What is a Revolution? (10-15 minutes)
Week 1
Follow up: Introduction of unit, Independence Movements - what
we will be covering (5 minutes)
Lecture: Mexico (20-25 minutes)
Introduce Choice Project (5minutes)
Week 2
Entrance Slip: Review - Mexico - Three Phases (5-8 minutes)
Week 2
Lecture: Gandhi and Civil Disobedence (~20 minutes)
Gandhi Movie Clip & Discussion of (20-25 minutes)
Week 3
Entrance: China Quiz (15 minutes)
Week 3
Class Discussion: Comparing Three Independence Movements to
the American Revolution (30 minutes)
Exit Slip: 3 2 1 : 3 Examples of Similarities 2 Examples of
Differences 1 Question you still have (2-5 minutes)
Align
Entrance Slip: Review of Bourbon Reforms (5 minutes)
1&2
Lecture: Hidalgo and Morelos (25-30 mintues)
1&2
Dicsussion: Similiarites between Mexican Independence and
American Independence (15-20 minutes)
1&5
Lecture: Government of India, WWII, Partition (30-35 minutes)
1&2
Venn Diagram Work: Update notes (10-12 minutes)
1 &2
Exit Slip: Compare Mexico and India (5-8 minutes)
Concepts Quiz ( 15-20 minutes)
6
5
Work Time: Group Project OR Individual Essay (30 minutes)
Align
1, 3 & 5
1&2
2&6
1&2
4&7
1, 2, & 6
Lecture: Guerrilla Phase and Indepedence (15-20 minutes)
Quiz: Mexico (~15 minutes)
Document Reading: British East India Trading Company
http://www.economist.com/node/21541753 (15-20 minutes)
Exit Slip: What do you know about Indian Indpendence? (2 minutes)
Quiz: India (20 minutes)
Lecture: China - Fall of the Qing Dynasty and Republican government
(20 minutes)
Exit Slip: effects of WWI on Chinese Sovereignty (10 miuntes)
Work Time: Group Project OR Individual Essay (35 minutes)
Presentations: One volunteered group (5 minutes)
Exit Slip: Questions you have/Review (10 minutes)
Align
1, 2 & 3
2&6
1&2
2&5
1&2
5
Th
Entrance: Address yesterday's exit slip, most common responses (10 miuntes)
Lecture: India - East India Trade Company & British Colonization (25
minutes)
Introduce Venn Diagram: Important concepts to include, examples of (15
minutes)
Lecture: WWI and emergence of Nationalist Party (40 minutes)
Exit Slip: What do you know about Mao? (5-8 minutes)
Presentations: Group Projects - 5 minutes per group (25 minutes)
Review (25 minutes)
Essays and Article/Journal Collection Due (As Students leave classroom)
Align
1,2 & 4
4&7
1&2
1&2
1
2
Entrance Activity: Primary vs. Secondary Sources (~10 minutes)
Lecture: Colonization and Gandhi (15-20 minutes)
Document Activity: Identify bais, type of source (primary vs. secondary),
summarize for class (20-25 minutes)
Exit Slip: Compare British Raj with American Colonies (~2minutes)
Entrance Slip: WWII in Asia (5-8 minutes)
Lecture: Sino-Japanese War and Civil War (25-30 minutes)
Homework: Venn Diagram - Prep for concept quiz & Class Discussion (Class Time given 10 minutes)
UNIT TEST (Full Period)
Align
2&5
1,2, 4, 5, 6
2&6
1&2
4&7