Karon Davis

Time

: 3 days (1 hour)

Performance Expectation

: While the students are in groups

of four they will read a

chapter form

Great Women In American History

, and

then

they will give a presentation on the chapter they read

to the

class.

Materials

: 1. A costume of Betsy Rose.

2. A banner that says, "Great Women In

American History."

3. The book,

Great Women In American History

.

4. Copies of several Chapters form

Great Women In American

History

.

(Enough copies so that each group has a different chapter.)

Procedures

:

I. Introduction: Before starting class, the teacher should

put up the banner in
front of the classroom. Then the teacher dress

up like Betsy
Rose should enter the classroom. She will the tell the

students her life story based on the facts found in

Great Women

In


American History

. However, the teacher will

not tell the students who she is suppose to be because

the students are to guess who she is.

II. Development: 1. The students will be divided into groups

contain four

students in them.

2. Then the each group will be given a copy of one

of the chapters from the book,

Great Women In American


History

.

3. The groups will then read their chapter which is

about some
women in American History.

4. Next, the groups will plan how they want to present

their
women to the class.

5. The groups will get ready for their presentations.

III. Closure: The different groups will put on their presentations

that they prepared for the class.

Assessment

: Use a rubric to grade the students presentations

of their women. Make sure

and check that they tell the important facts about their

women in a creative

way to the class.

Adaptations/Consideration

:

1. I would make to place one student who is really smart and

one student who has a learning disability in each group, that

way the students can help each other.

2. This time when teaching the lesson I am going to assign the

woman each group reads about, but next time I teach this lesson

I might want to let the groups pick which woman they would like

to read about.

References

: 1. Janney, R. P. (1996).

Great women

in American history

. Camp Hill,

PA: Horizon Books.

2. Karon Davis (1997).