Grade+8+-+Power+-+Leaders,+Legacies,+and+Leverage



1. Concept Lesson - Power / Brainstorming, non-examples, generalizations 2. PBL Lesson #1 - Scenario Provided 3. PBL Lesson #2 - Data Matrix & Paul 4. PBL Lesson #4 - Creating Resolutions / Preparing Presentation 5. PBL Lesson #5 - Presentations and Peer Evals 6. CPS Lesson - Inheritance / Lead-in to Lear 7. Lear Act I - Value of words compared to actions / inheritance narrative 8. Ozymandias - Paul's Reasoning / Bloom Chart/ narrative 9. Lear Act II - Irony and natural order / hierarchy 10. Frederick Douglass - Making Connections / bastard children 11. Grammar Lesson - Dissecting Frederick Douglass 12. Lear Act III - Symbolism / nature / storm 13. Art Lesson / stimulus -- Saturn Eats His Children 14. Lear Act IV - Madness & Disguise 15. Poison Tree - Conflict Resolution / Role Playing 16. Harrison Bergeron - Containment of talented people / freedom from society 17. Grammar - Dissecting Vonnegut's style 18. Lear Act V - Fairness in the universe 19. Power Concept - Personal connections to power situation / Pair of Narratives 20. Intro to research paper project 22. Research paper - What makes an effective Leader? 22. Informational Text - 22nd Amendment and Congressional Research Committee/ Term Limits 23. Power Concept Lesson - Power Matrix