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Defining Citizenship

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Defining Citizenship

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

History, English Language Arts, Reading and Writing in History and Social Studies
Related Academic Standards
CC.1.2.6.J CC.1.2.6.J
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CC.1.2.7.J CC.1.2.7.J
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CC.1.2.8.J CC.1.2.8.J
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CC.1.3.6.J CC.1.3.6.J
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
CC.1.3.7.J CC.1.3.7.J
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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  • Big Ideas
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    Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
    Effective speaking and listening are essential for productive communication.
    Effective use of vocabulary builds social and academic knowledge
    Information to gain or expand knowledge can be acquired through a variety of sources.
    Language is used to communicate and to deepen understanding.
    Listening provides the opportunity to learn, reflect, and respond
    Spoken language can be represented in print.
    The history of the United States continues to influence its citizens, and has impacted the rest of the world.
    Active listeners make meaning from what they hear by questioning, reflecting, responding and evaluating.
    An expanded vocabulary enhances one’s ability to express ideas and information
    An expanded vocabulary enhances one’s ability to express ideas and information.
  • Concepts
    Acquiring and applying a robust vocabulary assists in constructing meaning
    Active listening facilitates learning and communication.
    Active listening promotes understanding of the spoken message
    Essential content of text, including literary elements and devices, inform meaning
    Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning
    In the English language words can be understood by analyzing both the phonetic and the morphological parts.
    Informational sources have unique purposes.
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    Organization of information facilitates meaning.
    Purpose, context and audience influence the content and delivery in speaking situations
    Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on the United States society.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the United States. Domestic instability, ethnic and racial relations, labor relation, immigration, and wars and revolutions are examples of social disagreement and collaboration.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending the American society.
    Human organizations work to socialize members and, even though there is a constancy of purpose, changes occur over time.
    Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of United States culture provide vital contributions to contemporary issues.
    Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of United States society provide vital contributions to contemporary issues. Belief systems and religion, commerce and industry, innovations, settlement patterns, social organization, transportation and trade, and equality are examples continuity and change.
    Social entities clash over disagreement and assist each other when advantageous.
    Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding United States history.
    United States history can offer an individual discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    United States history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    Collaborative Discussion
    Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
  • Competencies
    Analyze information, ideas and opinions to form a relevant response to the speaker’s message
    Analyze the context of literal, figurative, and idiomatic vocabulary to clarify meaning
    Apply academic vocabulary across disciplines
    Articulate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
    Develop an increasingly sophisticated working vocabulary including specialized vocabulary from academic content areas.
    Evaluate and respond to the speaker’s message by analyzing and synthesizing information, ideas, and opinions
    Generalize the use of academic vocabulary across disciplines
    Generate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context
    Identify characteristics of primary and secondary source materials.
    Identify the literal, figurative, and idiomatic meaning of vocabulary
    Indentify and explain the literal and figurative meaning of vocabulary
    Interact effectively in discussions by o maintaining the focus of the discussion by contributing relevant content o selecting and using appropriate language o asking relevant and clarifying questions o monitoring the response of participants and adjusting contributions accordingly o employing effective delivery techniques: volume, pace eye contact, emphasis, gestures, enunciation
    Listen Actively and monitor one’s own understanding by asking probing questions, paraphrasing, summarizing and/or reflecting on the speaker’s message
    Listen with civility to the ideas of others
    Organize and present information drawn from research.
    Summarize relevant information from source material to achieve a research goal.
    Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences, generalizations, and to draw conclusions
    Use connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context to distinguish nuances or connotations
    Use grade appropriate resources to confirm and extend meaning of vocabulary
    Use the knowledge of language, including word origins and morphology to unlock meaning of specialized vocabulary across disciplines
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    Analyze a primary source for accuracy and bias and connect it to a time and place in United States history.
    Apply the theme of continuity and change in United States history and relate the benefits and drawbacks of your example.
    Construct a biography of an American and generate conclusions regarding his/her qualities and limitations.
    Contrast how a historically important issue in the United States was resolved and compare what techniques and decisions may be applied today.
    Summarize how conflict and compromise in United States history impact contemporary society.
    Synthesize a rationale for the study of individuals in United States history.
    Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word of phrase important to comprehension or expression.
    Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
    Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
    Demonstrate understanding across content areas within grade appropriate level texts of figurative language, word relationships, and the shades of meaning among related words.
    Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, on grade level topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
    Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grades level topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Description

In this 45 minute lesson, students define, discuss, and journal about citizenship in relationship to community through the experiences Medal of Honor recipient Clarence Sasser.

Web-based Resource

https://themedalofhonor.com/lessons/defining-citizenship/ 

The above link will direct you to the home page of the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program.  Once you have created a free account and have logged on, you will automatically be redirected to the appropriate lesson.

Content Provider

The Medal of Honor Character Development Program: Lessons of Personal Bravery and Self-Sacrifice is a resource designed by teachers for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to provide students with opportunities to explore the important concepts of courage, sacrifice, patriotism, integrity, and citizenship and how these values can be exemplified in daily life.

 

The program was designed to be used for a variety of educational purposes by teachers in any school system in middle and high school. The primary goal is to prompt students to think of others before themselves and to make these good choices every day.

To learn more about the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation: www.cmohs.org  

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