Date: 9/13/17 Content: Social Studies Grade: 8th grade Teacher: Mr.

Rivas

Academic Standard S1C3PO4: Describe how the Allies won World War II

Today I will describe D-Day and how the successful Allied invasion of France led to victory in
Content Objective
Europe by working in groups to complete an assignment

Today I will review the three steps/phases towards allied victory with the idea: Battle of Stalingrad, Operation
Language Objective Torch, and D-Day all lead to the Nazi losing France and prepared for the invasion of Germany.

Anticipatory Set/ We will watch a video about D-Day and the students will answer questions about the Allied invasion of
Building Background France, show video clip of Allies rushing the beaches of Normandy, as well as showing video clip of Saving
Private Ryan.
I Do: Discourse/Questioning
Model and explain and reinforce my rules and expectations Strategies:
explain video, discuss bellwork, students will work on Map
Assignment of the beaches of Normandy and invasion. What was D Day?
How did the invasion of France
We Do: set the Allies up for victory?
watch video, do bellwork, take notes, and begin working on map Can you locate and label Allied
assignment that requires students to color and define beaches of victories in North Africa and
Lesson Implementation Normandy, France. Italy?
What is Operation Torch?
You Do: Why did Hitler invade the
Watch video, do bellwork, answer text based USSR?
questions, students will finish assignment. What was the result of this
invasion?
What did it mean for the Nazis?
What was the significance of
the Battle of Stalingrad?
Differentiation Shorten assignments, give more time, focus on vocabulary
Assessment Bellwork based on dictators, checks for understanding, class discussion, completion of
(Formative/Summative) map assignment questions and coloring of map with right locations.
Always keep in mind the PLC guiding questions:
1. What do we want students to know and be able to do? 2. How will we know if they have learned it? 3. What will we do if they dont learn it? 4. What do
we do when they do learn it?