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Lesson Plan: Teaching
the Lesson: Overview, Goals, and Planning
Overview
The students in this lesson are seniors at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a public magnet school in Washington, D.C., that has a
strong commitment to integrating the arts with academic subjects. U.S.
government teacher Alice Chandler, who finds Socratic questioning and
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences particularly
useful in an integrated arts environment, has developed a lesson in
which students create a Museum of Patriotism and Foreign Policy. Over
three days, the lesson alternates between whole-class discussions,
in which the use of Socratic questioning is evident, and committee
work, in which students determine what will be placed in the museum,
using their particular art major as the basis for their choices. The
conclusion of the lesson shows the students' presentations, including
dance, music, theatrical performances, and visual representations,
along with rationales for their selections.
Goal
The goals of the lesson are for students to discuss and define the word “patriotism,” discuss
and decide what they think U.S. relationships with the rest of the world
should be, and select artifacts for a Museum of Patriotism and Foreign
Policy that are relevant to the concepts of patriotism and/or foreign
policy. Students are also expected to demonstrate their understanding
of patriotism and foreign policy through one of the arts.
Planning
Earlier in the semester, students read several Supreme Court case summaries
(see Lesson
Materials) that relate to patriotism, including Minersville District
v. Gobitis (1940), West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnett
(1943), and Johnson v. Texas (1989). Johnson v. Texas,
in particular, which decided that it was within a person’s First
Amendment rights to burn a flag, generated a great deal of discussion
and controversy among the students. The class also discussed how various
members of the school community, which includes students born outside
of the United States, define patriotism, and came to understand that patriotism
might be viewed quite differently in other countries than it is in the
United States.
Overview, Goals, and Planning |
Activity 1
Activity 2
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Activity 3
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Activity 4
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Activity 5
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Scheduling and Adaptations
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