Teacher
Donor
Team
Blue
Subject History
Date: March 13 to March 17
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Standards
7-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and effects of world conflicts in the first half of the twentieth century.
Indicators
7-4.5: Summarize the causes and course of World War II, including drives for empire, appeasement and isolationism, the invasion of Poland, the Battle of
Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the “Final Solution,” the Lend-Lease program, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, the campaigns in North Africa and the
Mediterranean, the D-Day invasion, the island-hopping campaigns, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Strategies
Bell work: review
questions (WI)
Bell work: review
questions (WI)
Bell work: review
questions (WI)
Bell work: review
questions (WI)
Bell work: review
questions (WI)
Introduction: What does
Appeasement mean? (I)
Introduction: Why did
Appeasement fail? (I)
Introduction: Who are
Hitler’s biggest threats?
(I)
Introduction: What
should the US do? (I)
Introduction: Now that
the US is involved, what
now? (I)
CN Lesson: Appeasement
and Expansion. Students
will read about
appeasement and
Japanese expansion and
answer a series of
questions based on the
reading. This will serve as
their notes. (WICOR)
CN Lesson: Two Alliances
and Battle of Britain.
Students will learn about
the two sides of WWII
and the Battle of Britain
and how it contributed to
the War by reading and
answering questions.
(WICOR)
CN Lesson: Hitler v. Stalin.
Students will learn about
the shaky alliance
between the two and why
that changes by reading
and answering questions.
(WICOR)
Before and After:
Students will write a
letter as Neville
Chamberlain, before the
Munich Conference and
after and compare them
(WICOR)
Event Notecard: Students
will complete a notecard
as a group to describe the
Battle of Britain.
Perspective Writing:
Students will imagine they
are a soldier fighting in
the USSR. They will
describe their lives in a
letter (WICOR)
W: writing
I: Inquiry
C: Collaboration
O: Organization
R: Reading
CN: Cornell Notes
HW = Homework
Plicker (I)
CN Lesson: US Neutrality
and Pearl Harbor.
Students will learn about
how the US remained
neutral, up until the
bombing of Pearl Harbor
by reading and answering
questions (WICOR)
Event Notecard: Students
will complete a notecard
as a group to describe the
Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
(WICOR)
CN Lesson: European
Theatre. Students will
learn about the course of
the war in Europe by
reading and answering
questions (WICOR).
War Map: Students will
label a map and timeline
of the conflict in Europe.
(WICOR)
Plicker (I)
Plicker (I)
Plicker (I)
Plicker review (I)
Assessment
WWII Unit Test
WWII Unit Test
WWII Unit Test
WWII Unit Test
WWII Unit Test
Materials/
Resources
Bell work folder, pencil, Note
Page 30, plicker card, reading
Bell work folder, pencil, Note
Page 30, plicker card, reading
Bell work folder, pencil, Note
Page 31, plicker card, reading
Bell work folder, pencil, Note
Page 31, plicker card, reading
Bell work folder, pencil, Note
Page 31, plicker card, reading
***These plans are tentative and subject to change, as instruction may be adjusted to meet students’ needs.***