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High school study skills balanced literacy dbqs
Middle School QAR Lesson Plan | QAR Student Practice
Lesson plan for middle/high school ELA to help improve comprehension. I use this to align with IEP goals to improve reading skills and comprehension using questioning. Includes CCSS alignment, goals, lesson outline with practice, along with 4 practice passages. Practice passages are leveled with 2 for grades 6-8 range, 1 lexile of 300-500 and 1 lexile of 600-1010. Includes educator answer key and printable student graphic organizer worksheets.
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6th - 9th
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The Odyssey:Writing Prompts Constructed Response CCSS Digital Activity
Add this to your Odyssey Unit. This is a very engaging and timely activity that deals with a piece of classic literature that is essential to the goals of the Common Core. Students race to collect textual evidence in disguise as character tweets. After the data collection on several topics, students jigsaw and examine one of the topic sheets. The discussion of this material will become material for a constructed response. I love to make learning a game and this is the ultimate example of that. I
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6th - 10th
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Vehicular Vengeance! - Crime / Mystery Synthesis
This student centered assignment draws upon many of the skills and standards required in an English or language arts course. Students must close-read texts, make annotations, synthesize, present arguments, and use effective listening and speaking skills in a group setting. The set-up is straightforward. Students are placed in groups (typically 4-5 students per). Each group is given the included packet of clues that must be scrutinized in order to present a solution. The clues reveal little on t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Environmental issues of Europe stations clue hunt
This is a wonderful resource for any Social Studies classroom. It covers the Georgia standard SS6G8 : Explain environmental issues in Europe. It can also be used for Earth Day. I created this station activity for my own social studies classroom. Our district is focusing on incorporating literacy standards in all subject areas. This is a great way to get students reading for information.My students love this activity. I hope yours do too!CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7CCS
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4th - 12th
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NYS Global History Regents: CRQ- Gandhi/India (Primary Sources!)
Are you overwhelmed trying to find materials to prepare your students for the new NYS Regents exam in global history? Here is a primary source activity aligned with the constructed response (CRQ) section of the new exam.Complete CRQ Set! Answer key included!Not from NY? This is still a great primary source activity to use with your students! This product is in pdf format.Related Resource (Spanish Translation of this file)https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/itemsDigital/editNext/5208378Please fol
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9th - 12th, Staff
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David Robinson “Letter to My Younger Self” Discussion Questions
This google form has discussion questions that go with the text "Letter to My Younger Self" by David Robinson. The questions are all short response that go over comprehension and figurative language throughout the text. You can give this to students as an individual assignment or whole group.
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7th - 10th
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Performance Task: Life in a Dystopia
In this Performance Task, students are asked to read 4 sources, two fiction and two nonfiction, on the topic of dystopias. Students must complete 3 research questions related to the sources, citing textual evidence.Students then complete a writing task based on what they learned from the four sources they read.Could be used as SBAC prep, a 3-4 day lesson on close reading and writing, or an assessment
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6th - 10th
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The Lunchroom Fight- an activity about sourcing, analysis, and corroboration
An activity using the characters from The Office to help students learn how to analyze primary sources, interpret perspectives, corroborate stories, and determine if sources are reliable or not!
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9th - 12th
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DBQ: The Pledge (Argument & Sources)
This is a resource I created during my first year as an AP Language and Composition teacher. Very similar to the DBQ (Document Based Questions) that students write in History class, this type of assignment is crucial to promoting close reading, text-supported arguments, and visual text.
This activity is designed to:
1) Help students become familiar with the wording of the exam and exam directions
2) Have students take a position on a controversial issue
3) Read visuals as text
4) Practice in-te
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9th - 12th
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Scientific Revolution DBQ w/guidance & answers
This is an excellent, helpful DBQ resource for teachers preparing students for the APE exam or an honors class. This resource provides guidance, answers, and suggestions throughout which are very helpful for students. The DBQ question: (6 documents)"To what extent did the ideas and discoveries of the scientific revolution represent a source of continuity with or change from the world view established by ancient philosophers and the Catholic Church?"Example of guidance:SynthesisStudents can earn
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9th - 12th
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Lupita Manana: Document Based Essay Assignment
At the conclusion of our unit on immigration and after reading Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty my students wrote this persuasive essay pertaining to illegal immigration. It is formatted to match the format of the document based essay on the New York State History Regents Exam. The documents that they use are the book and articles that we read as a class.
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7th - 10th
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"Why Videos Go Viral" TED Talk Questions
This product includes the transcript of the TED Talk "Why Videos Go Viral" by Kevin Allocca as well as ten multiple-choice questions. The multiple choice questions address author's purpose, central idea, summary, and analyzing the meanings of unknown words.
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6th - 9th
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S3 Key History Skills: Understanding Bias Handout
(Handout Printable Version) This is an outstanding resource which thoroughly covers a key historical source analysis skill - detecting and understanding bias - an essential skill for students who wish to master the DBQ. This resource gives in-depth examples using a variety of historical sources from different eras.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Literacy in social studies
Interactive notebook inserts that give students the skills to better understand social studies. They can also be blown up and made into anchor charts...Strategies included:1. Close reading2. Writing in the margin3. How to infer4. APPARTS5. Historical thinking6. Annotating
Grades:
6th - 9th
Key History Skills: Historical Inquirary
This is an outstanding resource in teaching the key historical skill of historical inquiry. Historical inquiry is a process of questioning, organizing, analyzing and explaining events that happened in the past. It is a cyclical process which utilizes key inquiry questions. Questions focus on historical sources or evidences.
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9th - 12th
S3 Key History Skills: Historical Significance
This is an excellent resource for discussing the key history skill of understanding historical significance. Well-structured, with many solid examples this resource full explains and relates the notion of historical significance to help students with their historical writing.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
S3 Key History Skills: Understanding Bias
This is an outstanding resource which thoroughly covers a key historical source analysis skill - detecting and understanding bias - an essential skill for students who wish to master the DBQ. This resource gives in-depth examples using a variety of historical sources from different eras.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
"The Dangers of Silence" TED Talk Questions
This product includes the transcript of the TED Talk "The Danger of Silence" by Clint Smith as well as ten multiple-choice questions. The multiple choice questions address central idea, structure, figurative language (analyzing, not idenitfying), and perspective/POV.
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7th - 10th
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Paraphrasing Primary Documents
This document breaks down two primary sources related to immigration and Early American Intolerance. Students can define highlighted words and paraphrase each section of the document in a table format.
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9th - 10th
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Guidelines for Sourcing Documents
It is important to source ALL evidence! These guidelines will help students source documents to determine how reliable they may be, as well as learning where their information is coming from to determine bias or perspective. Great tool for DBQ's!
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6th - 12th
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Writing Process: Self-Check and Peer Review
After students have completed the planning stage for an essay or paper, you can use this sheet for students to use as a rough draft. There are questions on the left margin they must address and reflect on, questions for a peer reviewer to complete, and some space for your feedback at the bottom (which I would recommend not doing until they've addressed issues they saw in their reflection and the peer review).
I use these with Document-Based Essays and Mini-DBQs, but they could be used in any co
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Mass Media and the American Revolution
This lesson was initially developed to help teach students about the ways in which mass media have evolved over time, but also about how many of the functions that the media serve today have remained the same for hundreds of years. In my experience, this lesson works very nicely as a gallery walk, but it is also possible to place students in small groups based on readiness or interest level, have each group examine only one document, and then take turns presenting their findings to the whole cla
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7th - 11th
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Arrogance Killed Macbeth
i did a paper on the one attribute the lead to Macbeth’s downfall. It has 9 cited quotes.
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9th - 12th
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Common Core Writing Peer Revision Form
Increase you r students literacy skills using this peer revision form specifically designed to supplement Common Core Literacy Standards. From Spiwak Educational Materials.
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7th - 12th
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