Lesson Plan Template WCSD Writing Program Teacher’s name: Matthew D. Ochs Teacher’s school: Reno High School
Writing Type/Genre: Explanatory Lesson Title: “Create Your Own Regime!” Standards-based Outcomes: Integrated Language Arts W.9-10 Introduce a topic with a preview of what is to follow Convey complex ideas Use facts, definitions, concrete details, and other examples with relevance and appropriateness for an audience. Understand the formal style used in a speech. Write an informative conclusion. Student Outcomes: Student Will Be Able To: Explain components of Totalitarianism Extrapolate and apply elements of totalitarianism to a fictional setting Compare and Contrast Totalitarian countries with free societies both real and imagined. Write a speech to convey these ideas to a real or imagined audience. Audience and Purpose for Lesson: In the first half of the 20th century, a number of totalitarian regimes were created from former monarchies and free countries across Europe and Asia. The creation of theses regimes, including Nazi Germany, communist China, and Russian Revolution, eventually led to major world events such as World War II and the origins of the Cold War. The purpose of the lesson is to give students the skill necessary to identify and analyze totalitarian regimes. This will then allow the students to draw contrasts between free societies and closed or restricted societies in the modern world such as Iran or North Korea. The audience of the lesson would be high school sophomores in the 10 th grade. Pre-requisite Skills/Background Knowledge: Students would have already been exposed to the three main regimes in the first half of the 20th century: The scope and sequence of the Russian Revolution; a brief history of Czarist Russia under Nicholas II and previous Czars; the ideas of Karl Marx would also be pre-requisite knowledge (COVERED IN Ch. 25 of the World History text).