Politcal Parties Lesson Plan
Politcal Parties Lesson Plan
Politcal Parties Lesson Plan
What are the origins, developments, and viewpoints of different political parties?
Students will start off the class by answering the following prompt: What political party do
you think you would join? They will have 10 minutes to write down their thoughts and
support them with evidence of their prior knowledge. Students will then get with a partner
and share their writings with one another. I will then ask for volunteers to share their
writing with the whole class.
Students will be introduced to more political parties and content on their thinking through
the Political Party Statement of Purpose Assignment. The class will be dived into groups of
5-6 students to collaborate and design a new political party. The group members will read
through all the different statements of purpose and highlight at least one idea they like
from each of them. Students will have to work together and compromise to determine what
ideas should be added when contradictions arise. Then based off those highlighted ideas
groups will draft a party name and statement of purpose for their newly formed political
party.
Lesson Closure
Based off how well the groups are working together, they will either have the rest of the
class period to finish the Political Party Statement of Purpose or the groups will get to
share their new political party and read their statement of purpose to the class.
Accommodations for English Learners, Striving Readers and Students with Special Needs
Accommodations are made as needed based off the understand of the level all English
Language Learners are at and their Individual Learning Plans. Examples of
accommodations would include using audio, visual, and kinesthetic learning to help all
learners understand the material and what is being asked of them. Another example would
be developing sentence stems to help students feel less anxious about what to write down
on their papers.