Social Studies Unit Plan

I got support for this Unit Plan from my undergraduate mentor teacher Ms. Duncan at Coppin Academy. She is the 9th grade mathematics teacher. She knows and has access to the Baltimore City school curriculum. I not only got information about mathematics for 9th graders but for Social Science 9th grade as well. I forgot about the Science Unit Plan so I may need to get the Science curriculum for Baltimore 9th grade. I like the Inspiration 9 software that I purchased last week so all I have to do is cut/paste my objectives into the software saving me time. I put Howard Zinn Project into my unit plan as well as the three lessons we were to create with our unit plan. Students can use critical literacy to support Social Studies curriculum assigned with Howard Zinn Project. I also used information that I am learning about the brain in graduate course REED 504- Processes and Acquisition of reading Skills for Professional Development. I found out that I do not need this course but I am glade that I took it. Knowledge about the brain is very important because teachers can use this knowledge to support the multiply ways that they can teach students. Memory and Recall of information is what teachers aim for and teachers understanding how, when, and why students can and cannot recall information is essential for lesson planning and teaching strategies. Knowledge about the brain benefits both teacher and students alike. I included terms like procedural memory when I have students create political cartoons for one unit lesson; priming is another theory used in brain research. Priming is when teachers want to give cues so that students will start recalling information that lay deep in the students mind, and to obtain memory that will last in a student’s long time memory instead of their short time memory teachers must connect or reconnect information to what the students already know and build upon it. All this I got from the textbook for REED 504. The Social Studies curriculum for History started around the end of the civil war and began with the Reconstruction Period (1897), then cover 1898 until 1929 when the US faced many difficult challenges, and then covered the middle of the century (1929 until 1945) when crises rose on the home front.