Standard

Objective

Assessment
Students will be put in groups to come
up with a skit to re-enact the events of
the civil war.

Class Activities
Students will complete a columned
chart with the events of the civil war.
Students will need to fill in the causes
and effects column of the sheet.

SS8H6 The student will analyze the

impact of the Civil War and
Reconstruction on Georgia
b. State the importance of key events of
the Civil War, include Antietam, the
Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg,
Chickamauga, the Union Blockade of
Georgias coast, Shermans Atlanta
Campaign, Shermans March to the Sea,
and Andersonville
S7L5. Students will examine the
evolution of living organisms through
inherited characteristics that promote
survival of organisms and the survival of
successive generations of their
offspring.
a) Explain that physical characteristics
of organisms have changed over
successive generations (e.g. Darwins
finches and peppered moths of
Manchester).
b) Describe ways in which species on
earth have evolved due to natural
selection

Given five options of

important events in the Civil
War, Students will collaborate
in groups and create 5 min
power point presentations
discussing their event showing
they understand their topic
using key dates and figures.

Using Prezi or Powerpoint,

students will create a slide
show of no less than 5
different slides representing
traits of organisms that help
them survive and thrive in
their particular environment
or habitat. Verbal data must
accompany each slide
explaining how and why the
organism may be changing.
Grading will be based on
validity of arguments as well
as creativity.

Complete a test where students are

required to match the traits of the
different organisms to the
environmental factors that caused the
species to evolve.

a) Identify the specific evolution

changes in each organism.

Given examples of evolutionary traits

in different species, students are
required to explain how these traits
will help the species to survive.

b) For each organism, students will

identify variables in the environment
that caused these different organisms
to evolve.

ELACC7RL7: Compare and contrast a

written story, drama, or poem to its
audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia
version, analyzing the effects of
techniques unique to each medium (e.g.,
lighting, sound, color, or camera focus
and angles in a film).

Using VoiceThread, students

will compare and contrast the
book and the movie The
Outsiders.

Students will submit their VoiceThread to

the teacher. The teacher will assess the
VoiceThread using a rubric. Some
attributes on included in the rubric are
character differences and similarities,
language differences and similarities, and
action differences and similarities. There
will also be a portion of the rubric that
addresses the second objective. There will
be an attribute for verbal interpretation of
a scene based on a clear and logical
argument.

In class, students will learn about comparing

and contrasting. They might practice
comparing and contrasting a poem to a song.
Then, they will learn about some of the artistic
choices media producers might make because
there are different allowances with different
media. The students might practice with the
same song but look at the rhythm, the way the
words are sung, the tempo, etc. Then, the
teacher will introduce the activity with the
class novel, The Outsiders. The students are
already familiar with the tool VoiceThread.
Students have the rest of that period as well as
the next period to work on their assignment.
Teacher guides as necessary.

Using VoiceThread, students

will analyze the effects of film
on the story The Outsiders by
selecting a scene and verbally
explaining an interpretation of
lighting, sound, camera focus,
etc.