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Description
OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will be able to explain who the Choctaw code talkers were and their significance to the U.S. war effort during World War I.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 – 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What was one major communications challenge the U.S. military faced during World War I, and how did it address this challenge?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Sources
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up & Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will make observations, inferences, and predictions about the lesson based on an image of German soldiers at a communications station using a telegraph to communicate during World War I.
In this exit ticket, students will complete a graphic organizer addressing the U.S. Army’s need to change its wartime communications. Students provide the primary cause and solution of this issue.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will answer short constructed response questions with sentence stems provided about the challenges of U.S. Army communications, and how the Choctaw code talkers were instrumental in addressing this challenge during the war. Reading passages are presented at a grade-level Lexile level.
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In this printable assignment, students will answer multiple-choice and short constructed response questions with sentence stems and response options provided about the challenges of U.S. Army communications, and how the Choctaw code talkers were instrumental in addressing this challenge during the war. Reading passages are presented at a grade-level Lexile level with key information presented in bold font.
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In this printable assignment, students will answer short constructed response questions about the challenges of U.S. Army communications, and how the Choctaw code talkers were instrumental in addressing this challenge during the war. Reading passages are presented at an above-grade Lexile level.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.) Thursday, June 19, 1919
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Texas Heritage, 2015, Volume 2.
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