Chapter 8

 The lesson plan will be of the Great Depression and how it affected the general populace. My high school kids will develop an understanding and think critically of the human experience during this time period. During this phase in life, my students will probably have an increased recognition of the Great Depression and can piece together different ideas/lessons of the Great Depression to begin to understand the human aspect of this era. They also will understand the content relatively slowly and forcing them to learn is out of the question. I hope this lesson plan will have a positive transfer for the class.

I will assign my class to write a diary/journal entry of a person living in the Great Depression and to convey their experience using the 5 main human senses. I will give them a choice of three characters to write about. Before class is over, I will also ask the class to do a ticket out the door with a question I will ask/write on the board, like what we do in 401 class. They will also turn in their diary/journal for a grade. From this lesson, I see a few aspects of the cognitive process that may work for my students. 

 1. Comprehension Monitoring- I am utilizing this to check my students to see if they are understanding the material via writing about it in their own words. I will read each journal and grade accordingly.

2. Illusion of knowing- My students may see this as an assignment, but they may see this assignment like an iceberg. I see the 90% of the iceberg my students do not see. I believe this assignment will help them in writing, creativity, and think convergently.

3. Higher-level questions- With the ticket out the door, I will give them a thought-provoking question to see if they mastered this subject area of the human experience during the Great Depression.  

 To end, I believe this lesson correlates with Bloom's taxonomy, but instead of viewing it like a pyramid, I see it as a circle because depending on the student, they may see and take my lesson differently than another student. I believe as long as they fit into one category of Bloom's taxonomy, they will "reach" the other categories as well from their own level of understanding.