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