TAT2 Task 1: Integration Design
This unit is an eight day unit on how to use the concept of historical periodization to write a claim evidence, reasoning essay about the agricultural revolution. The unit of instruction is designed for high school ninth and tenth graders in World History. Please see the various sections below for more details on my unit.
Instructional Goal
Given writing prompts that require content knowledge from the Ancient Civilizations unit, students will write a claim, evidence, reasoning paragraph that meets the requirements of at least a three out of four on the Social Studies/ELA rubric.
Instructional Objectives The following is a list of instructional objectives used in this unit plan:
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Given a writing prompt, students will be able to explain how the agricultural revolution impacted the environment in their particular areas using at least two different civilizations as examples to support their answer in a claim, evidence, reasoning essay and they will earn at least a three out of four on the four-point writing rubric.
Given an excerpt from “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” by Jared Diamond and an excerpt from “Back of History” by William Howells, students will write a compare and contrast essay using claim, evidence and reasoning and they will earn at least a three out of four on the four-point writing rubric.
Students will write a claim, evidence, reasoning periodization essay using the agricultural revolution era and will earn at least a three out of four on the four-point writing rubric.
Given a writing prompt, students will use evidence and reasoning to support the claim that civilizations expanded for power and resources with at least two specific examples from ancient civilizations and they will earn at least a three out of four on the four-point writing