Goals & Objectives
Goal: Students will use their textbook to link the causes leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Objective: Students will be able complete a cause and effect diagram on the events surrounding the Russian Revolution.
Objective: Students will be able complete a cause and effect diagram on the events surrounding the Russian Revolution.
California State Content Standards
10.7.1 Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin’s use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag).
Common Core Literacy Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.1.A
Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.1.C
Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.6
Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.9
Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Introduce precise claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.1.C
Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2
Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.6
Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.9
Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Driving Historical Question
How did the Bolshevik party use the power of the people to take control of Russia?
Lesson Introduction (Anticipatory Set/Hook/Accessing Prior Knowledge)
Students will start the lesson with the viewing of a TED talk entitled History vs. Vladimir Lenin. This video will give more background information on one of the key figures of the Russian Revolution. Within the video are references to events covered in previous lessons that will help the students make connections to past events. From here the students will be transitioned into the lesson for the day.
Vocabulary (Content Language Development)
The vocabulary that the students will need to know will come from the textbook. They will be given the full list before the start of the unit and will be given time to work on defining the vocabulary before the lesson. Any words not defined before the lesson will be completed as homework. The vocabulary terms the students will need to define in this section will be: proletariat, Bolsheviks, Lenin, Rasputin, provisional government, soviet, Communist Party, and Joseph Stalin. All of these terms are defined in chapter 14, section 1 of the textbook.
Content Delivery (Method of Instruction)
In small groups of two to three, students will begin reading chapter 14, section 1 of their textbook. As a class, we will read the introduction section as well as the following section to model how the activity should be completed. As the students read the text within their groups they will pause at the end of each section and fill in the cause and effect diagram. This diagram will consist of the major events which lead to the Russian Revolution.
Student Engagement (Critical Thinking & Student Activities)
Students will spend the majority of the class working in groups to complete the cause and effect worksheet. The worksheet will have guides as to what the students should be looking for in the text. After the groups have finished the cause and effect diagram, we will go over each of the events as a class and make connections to their importance to the revolution.
Lesson Closure
After completing the cause and effect diagram students will reflect on what they feel was the most important event leading to the Russian Revolution. This writing activity will be completed on the back side of the cause and effect worksheet. The student will need to choose an event and support their view with at least one example. One example may be “the October Revolution allowed the peasants of Russia to gain power over their government.” Responses should be three to four complete sentences.
Assessments (Formative & Summative)
This section will consist of a summative assessment which will be represented by the cause and effect activity the students will produce. It will be graded on accuracy of information as well as the quality of the summaries.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs
Students needing accommodations for this activity will be given extra time to turn in their cause and effect diagram. They will receive a teacher summarization of each section that will have some of the extra information cut out for them. They will still need to produce their own summaries of the text for their cause and effect diagram.
Resources (Books, Websites, Handouts, Materials)
TED Talk History vs Lenin, School textbook