Sharyn West
Sharyn West, an eighth grade Social Studies Teacher, and Karen Wagoner, Academically Gifted Resource Teacher, collaborated to create this unit. In addition to being professional colleagues at Martin Middle School in Raleigh, they are friends and share many hobbies!
Resources created by Sharyn West
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- Change in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1 of 3
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 2 of 3
- This lesson is the post seminar activity to the Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1 of 3. Students will participate in tiered assignments reflecting on the Westall painting, "The Sword of Damocles," and the prior day's Paideia seminar on that painting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
