Lesson plan (English)
Topic: The first global conflict
Target group
6th‑grade students of elementary school
Core curriculum
6th‑grade students of elementary school.
XII. Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Student:
1 . characterizes, by the example of France of Louis XIV, the system of absolute monarchy and lists the main features of the parliamentary monarchy, using information about the system of England.
Attention! Lesson goes beyond the core curriculum – to be carried out in additional classes, such as a historical circle.
General aim of education
Students learn the causes, course and effects of the Seven Years War
Key competences
communication in foreign languages;
digital competence;
learning to learn.
Criteria for success
The student will learn:
to explain the causes of the Seven Years' War;
to characterize the European and non‑European aspects of the global conflict;
to recognize the consequences of the Seven Years' War.
Methods/techniques
expository
talk.
activating
discussion.
programmed
with computer;
with e‑textbook.
practical
exercices concerned.
Forms of work
individual activity;
activity in pairs;
activity in groups;
collective activity.
Teaching aids
e‑textbook;
notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;
interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.
Lesson plan overview
Before classes
The teacher asks students to read the subsection „Amerykańskie początki”.
Introduction
The teacher gives the students the subject, the purpose of the lesson and the criteria for success.
The teacher explains the students where the main „theaters” of the seven‑year war were located. He gives the most important reasons for the seven‑year war. Students do Exercise 1.
Realization
Students do Task 1. Listening to the recording, they write down the most important facts and opinions. The teacher completes the information about the Polish‑Saxon aspects of the Seven Years' war. Students re‑write the most important facts and opinions.
The teacher asks students to present the facts and opinions written down. Then students - as part of brainstorming, working in pairs - write questions considering the recording listened to. As an example, the teacher mentions in advance the question: What effect did Tsarina Elzbieta's death in Russia have on the result of the Seven Years' war and the takeover of power by her successor, Tsar Peter III?.
Students read their proposals. Together, they choose 5 best questions. They write down the answers on the sheets and then rank them according to the degree of importance or in the cause‑and‑effect system.
The teacher asks them to analyze to what aspects of the Seven Years' War they most often paid attention to. What knowledge about the world / Poland can they get thanks to them? What historical concepts about the subject can be considered the most important? Asking questions, the lecturer remembers that they are to be formulated as the key questions.
Summary
Students do Exercise 2 and Task 2, assigning parties to the conflict and naming the provisions of peace treaties. The teacher makes sure that the task has been correctly completed and gives feedback.
the teacher can give the students an evaluation survey prepared by them, with the assessment of the lesson, the student's own work and class work.
Homework
The teacher sets homework (it is not an obligatory part of the scenario) - one of the following options to choose from: Variant 1. Evaluate whether the position of the magnate faction, influencing the rule of the Polish‑Saxon state in the Saxon era, was right. They recommended staying out of the way of ongoing European conflicts. Did this mean giving full initiative to the neighbors of Poland? Write a short essay Variant 2. Look for information about the book or film „The Last Mohican.” If you're interested, read a book or watch a movie, then write your review.
The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson
Terms
„Wojna o ucho Jenkinsa” – konflikt zbrojny, który rozegrał się w Ameryce Północnej pomiędzy Wielką Brytanią a Hiszpanią. Wojna ta była wstępem do wojny siedmioletniej.
Wojna siedmioletnia – wojna toczona w latach 1756–1763 między Prusami , sprzymierzonymi z Wielką Brytanią i kilkoma księstwami niemieckimi, a koalicją, w skład której wchodziły Austria, Francja, Rosja, Saksonia, Szwecja i większość państw Rzeszy Niemieckiej oraz Hiszpania.
Cud domu brandenburskiego – po śmierci cesarzowej rosyjskiej Elżbiety II w 1762 r., nowy car Piotr III, nakazał natychmiastowe przerwanie działań wojennych i zawarł z Prusami pokój.
Texts and recordings
The first global conflict
Since 1730, „the War of Jenkins' Ear” was being waged in the colonies, in which English colonists achieved quite spectacular successes in their fight against the French and the Spanish. The Treaty of Aix‑la‑Chapelle of 1748 which ended the parallel European war (for the Austrian succession) deprived the colonists of all their conquests. As in previous decades, however, the most difficult struggle took place in Europe (known as the Seven Years' War, or the Great Northern War). The war that began in North America, whose main fights took place on the battlefields of Europe, also covered Central America (the Caribbean) and South America, Africa and Asia. It was therefore the first global conflict caused by rivalry between the European states.