Lesson Plan: “When the Levees Broke”
Thursday, Week 3
Name: Justin Jordan
Class/Subject: 8th Grade Social Studies
Big Idea: How natural distracters can expose the foundational weakness within society both culturally and politically
Essential Question:
1) Does the movie affect you in any way? Was there anything you learned from seeing the documentary that enlightened you?
2) Do movies like “When the Levees Broke” bring a call to action? Does talking about activism get us anywhere?
Objective: For students to collectively discuss “When the Levees Broke” and gain from their fellow students a better perspective on what they just witnessed
Rationale: For students to use each other as sources; also this task will help them in their development of the final project which would be to create a documentary for themselves.
Content Standards:
18. B.3b Explain how social institutions con¬tribute to the development and transmission of culture.
18. B.3a Analyze how individuals and groups interact with and within institutions (e.g., educational, military).
17. B.3b Explain how changes in components of an ecosystem affect the system overall.
College Readiness Standards:
• Identify clear main ideas or purposes of complex passages or their paragraphs
• Draw complex or subtle generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas, and so on, often by synthesizing information from different portions of the passage
• Understand and generalize about portions of a complex literary narrative
• Determine, even when the language is richly figurative and the vocabulary is difficult, the appropriate meaning of context-dependent words, phrases, or statements in virtually any passage
Procedure:
1) Finish movie 12-15 min
2) Ask students to write down their reactions immediately after watching the movie 8 mins
3) Students will then as a class write out some of the key words that came to mind after watching the movie. 15 mins
4) After which they will present their thought with the rest of the class. 15 mins
List of materials: Movie "When the Levees Broke"
Assessment: Students will write a journal entry after watching the movie answering the question of how if possible the situation of Hurricane Katrina could be handled better.
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