Topic: Western Cowboys
Learning Objective: You will be able to determine whether or not the American Cowboy popularized in film is genuine (real) or fake?
Do Now:
1. Read the hand out.
2. Find five Key Terms.
3. Write down two questions you have about the reading.
Direct Instruction – 10 minutes of Questions and discussion, elicit info from students and put on board.
I - What is a "cowboy" and where is it from?
● The word Cowboy comes from the Spanish word Vaquero. The name "Cowpoke" comes from the end of the cattle drive when the cowboys had to push the cattle onto the trains with a stick or prod.
I - What is a "cowboy" and where is it from?
● The word Cowboy comes from the Spanish word Vaquero. The name "Cowpoke" comes from the end of the cattle drive when the cowboys had to push the cattle onto the trains with a stick or prod.
Conferencing/ Independent Learning / Clustering – Here is a 20 minute activity that students will complete – alone, pairs, or groups
Students will be shown slides and will be expected to use the information from the slides to fill a graphic organizer.
Sharing Out / Final Summary – This is how you end the lesson, with questions or activity.
On an exit ticket give 2 examples of things you believed to be true about cowboys now to be false.
