The Republic Lesson Plan

Project: What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

To provide students with more key concepts.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

The teacher should start by having students watch the first 6 minutes and 10 seconds of the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXGTs-xKYY

Then, he/she should ask students to describe some of the things that they've just heard about. What do they believe...