Aztecs Rise to Power

Correlation to State Content Standards

7.7.2: Study the roles of people in each society, including class structures, family life, war fare, religious beliefs and practices, and slavery.

Expected Student Outcomes (Objective)

Students will be able to:

1. Describe the impact of Teotihuacan, Toltec cities, and the Maya Civilization on the rise of the Aztecs.

2. Identify methods used by the Aztecs to gain power and territory.

3. Explain why the Aztecs chose Tenochtitlan as their new home.

4. Explain how the Aztecs evolved from a few cities to an empire.

Common Core Literacy Standard

RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 7: Integrate visual information (eg. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

WHST 2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events,...

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Anticipatory Set (3 min):

Daily Journal: Students will read and identify the 5 W's from today's "This Day in History" section.

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

SDAIE: Close Read/Chunk/Annotate: Aztec Rise to Power: Teacher will Cloze read the Aztec Introduction section. Will summarize the key points of the reading and add further information. Will help students make a connection.

Guided Practice (10 min.)

SDAIE: Think Aloud/Annotate: Aztec Rise to Power : Teacher will use think aloud to guide students in annotating the passage. Teacher will go further from the reading and help students make a connections. (7th Grade).

Independent Practice (20 min.)

SDAIE: Think Aloud/Annotate: Aztec Rise to Power : Students will annotate the passage of the Aztecs. That will be followed by an essential question based on the reading. Students will then watch a video clip dealing with the Aztec rise to power based on what they read (video will help visual learners comprehend what they read).

SDAIE: Picture Annotate: Aztec Rise to Power : Students will look at an Aztec Codex and decipher the origins of the Aztec civilization. They will be asked to identify pictures of the codex that goes along with reading and explain its origins. They will use the reading to help them explain the codex.

Homework

EdPuzzle: Due Friday by 5:00pm.

Closure (2 min.)

1. Clean up.

2. Dismiss Class.

Lesson Modifications for GATE, RSP, and EL Students

EL: Projector (visuals), questioning, chunking, cognitive words, repetition, translation in Spanish.

RSP: Projector (visuals), questioning, modified assignments, check for understandings.

GATE: Require answers that will demonstrate depth and complexity of fertilization.

1. Explain and Identify the Mayan origins, rise, fall, and achievements of the Classic Period.

2. Critique the latest discovery explaining the fall of the Mayan Civilizations.

Common Core Literacy Standard

RH 1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH 7: Integrate visual information (eg. in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

WHST 2: Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events,...

WHST 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Anticipatory Set (3 min):

Starter: 5 W's: Students will the events that took place "This Day in History" and identify the 5 W's.

Direct Instruction (10 min.)

SDAIE: Direct Teach: Mayan Review: Teacher will go over the directions and explain where to find the answers. Then explain to students the recent develops with this mystery as archeologists use the latest technology to further understand what happened.

Guided Practice (10 min.)

SDAIE: TPS: Maya Review: Teacher will go over the answers with the students. Students will be selected at random to answer one of the 9 questions of the review.

Independent Practice (20 min.)

SDAIE: Close Read/Metacognition: Mayan Review: Students will have to answer 9 questions that deal with the origins, rise, fall, and achievements of the Mayan Civilization.

SDAIE: Video Clip/QuickWrite: Mayan Downfall "Unexplained": Student will watch a video clip that shows the most recent data explaining what happened to the Mayan Civilization and will be asked to critique it.