Daily Lesson Plan/Learning Guide
Course, Unit Theme and Grade
Level
Utah State Core Standard and
Objective
Essential Question(s)
How do activities, materials etc.
connect to students’ prior
knowledge?
(academic, interests, learning styles,
motivation, Funds of Knowledge)
Assessments
(formative and/or summative)
Learning Activities:
(Include description and time
frame for each activity)
Accommodations made for
struggling and accelerated learners
(grouping patterns, content
literacy strategies, etc.)
U.S History, Gilded Age, 11th Grade
U.S. II Standard 1.1:
Students will assess how innovations in transportation, science,
agriculture, manufacturing, technology, communication, and
marketing transformed America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
U.S. II Standard 1.3:
Students will analyze the causal relationships between
industrialization and the challenges faced by the growing working
classes in urban settings.
What conditions are too inhumane to allow in a civilized society?
Student interest will be engaged by hearing how issues from the past
are still relevant today. This will be extended by allowing students
the freedom to consider how these areas must be solved
Student rubrics of speeches, personal rubric of speech, student
speech outlines
Time will be given at the start of class to prepare final details before
they deliver their speeches (10 minutes)
Students will deliver speeches comparing and analyzing topics such
as housing and food issues during the gilded age, today, and the
solutions for a minimum of 3 minutes. (50 minutes)
In tables, students will share their favorite solution they heard during
the speeches. As a class, the students will share the one their table
agreed on as the most tenable for the class to discuss.
Student and teacher rubric will be distributed to class before hand for
all students to see and understand how they will be evaluated in
advance. This will offer an ability to respond appropriately to
expectations and deliver the speech in a better manner than if given
verbal instructions.
 Resources Student Rubrics

How has the prior day’s

assessment shaped your
instruction?