Lesson Plan Form

Name: Victoria Chandler 3190 Mini Lesson for Novel Study

Lesson #: 1

Lesson Title: 7th Grade Social Studies, Ethnic vs. Religion

Date: 4/28/2016 Day of Week:

Time (Class Period):

Central Focus

How are ethnicity and religion similar and how is it different?

Instructional Focus
What do I know about my students that will inform this lesson?
N/A
How does this lesson connect with and build on the previous lesson(s)?

This lesson will be taught before the class begins reading The Breadwinner by Deborah
Ellis
Standards Addressed
Common Core/Georgia Performance Standards

SS7G8 The student will describe the diverse cultures of the people who live
in Southwest Asia (Middle East).
a. Explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group.
Learning Objectives/Learning Targets
Objective/Target

Students will define ethnicity. Whats the difference

between ethnicity and religion?
Students will be able to compare and contrast ethnicity
with religion. Are there any connections between the two?
Students will explain how ethnicity and religion are often
informed by each other but are not synonymous.

Assessment
Warm up
Ticket out the door quiz
Discussions and Ticket out
the door quiz

Academic Language/Language Function Objectives

Discussion, lecture, question based learning, define, compare and contrast, explain,
religion, ethnicity, synonymous
Assessments

Warm-up questions
Discussions of video and posed questions
Students will have a ticket-out-the-door quiz.
Instruction Strategies and Learning Tasks (Procedures & Timelines)
Time
Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks
Purpose

5 min
10 min

Warm-up: Have students get out a piece of paper

and define ethnicity. (What they think it is)

Class starter and lesson

connection.

On the same piece of paper, number 1-8 and take

the quiz: Can you tell her religion from her head
covering?

Teacher and student

activities connecting
ethnicity to religion.

http://www.judaism-islam.com/quiz-can-you-tell-her-religionfrom-her-head-covering

2 min

Short video, difference between ethnicity and

religion (YouTube).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6paglTMpfg

Time
5 min

5 min

Instructional Strategies/Learning Tasks

Discuss, difference between ethnicity and

religion, defining each:
A religious group is a group of people who share
similar spiritual beliefs only. You can change your
religious group but you cant change your ethnic
group.
An ethnic group is a group of people who share
a culture, a region, similar interests, way of living,
and sometimes religious beliefs.
Im going to make some statements and you all
tell me which category (religion or ethnicity)
should the statement fall under.
I speak Hebrew. (E)
I pray 5 times a day. (R)
I live in Israel. (E)
I go to church on Sunday. (R)
I have dark skin. (E)
I believe in God. (R)
My parents come from Iran. (E)
Ticket out the door, quick true and false:
Questions:
1. Religion is a FIXED cultural identity. (F)
2. Ethnicity can influence what religion a person
decides to be. (T)
3. Ethnicity includes the color of your skin. (T)
4. Ethnicity includes where your family came
from. (T)
5. Religion concerns what you think about God.
(T)
6. You can definitely know what religion people
are by where they are from. (F)
7. Religion CAN influence the way people dress.
(T)
8. Ethnicity can refer to what Nation you are from.
(T)

To present the differences

between religion and
ethnicities.

Purpose
To allows students to hear
and see the differences
between ethnicities and
religion.

To assess students
understanding of the
differences between
ethnicity and religion.

**This entire lesson will

build background
knowledge and schema
leading into the novel of
The Breadwinner.

Student Supports

Visual stimulators and auditory stimulators

A balance of student centered activities and teacher-centered instruction
video

Materials and Resources

Online video & YouTube video.

Paper, pencils, computer with projector for videos.
Reflection
What worked and for whom? Why?
What didnt work and for whom? Why?
What are instructional next steps based on the data from this plan?