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Common Core CCRA.R.3 dbqs
The Sinking of the Lusitania: Solve the WWI Mystery w Primary Source Analysis!
Perhaps one of the most important events of World War One, the sinking of the Lusitania has fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based mission that they will remember all year long!In this mystery, students are posed with an engaging scenario - they are CIA Agents that must piece together once and for all how and why the Lusitania sank. They are presented with a variety of "exhibits," all cleverly designed to engage
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: GROWING WWI BUNDLE: Higher Order Thinking WWI Activities (SS5H2)
Short Story (any) : Writing Prompts Constructed Response Practice Unit
Let me make your life easier. Use these 13 constructed responses to test knowledge of the CCSS standards after any short story. They include questions about: theme, characterization, text structure, word use, literary devices, comparison and contrast of similar short stories, mood, tone, conflict, and more. I've also included a handy rubric for easy grading. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.Check out these other
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle of Lessons Use Digital or Printable
Entrepreneurship: An Entire Semester Worth (500+ Pages) of PPs, Projects, DBQs
*All Lessons, PowerPoints, Projects, DBQs, Worksheets and Activities in this Bundle I Personally Have Used in my Classroom.Well Over 500 Pages of Information.This comprehensive bundle is tailor-made for a semester-long course on entrepreneurship, covering a wide array of topics crucial for understanding and navigating the entrepreneurial landscape. With a total of 44 items, this bundle offers a robust curriculum designed to engage high school students in practical and immersive activities relate
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: reading questions, task cards, and test
This 45 page* novel study will assist students in comprehension and critical thinking while reading whole class, in a small group, or independently, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Reynolds and Kendi's brilliant partnership is a must read for students hoping to gain a clear and engaging understanding of how race has been viewed and used in American history.Teachers can assign 50 critical thinking and recall questions to be answered during reading to hol
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7th - 12th
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"I Know What You Did Last Summer" Discussion Questions and Chapter Summaries
Teach the classic, I Know What You Did Last Summer, by Lois Duncan with the following google drive resources!Resource includes: Discussion questions grouped by chapters: (1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-13, 14-18)- Discussion questions include short answer and multiple choice. Questions are state standard based questions for 8th grade ELA. Overall, 42 discussion questions for the entire novel.Digital Chapter by Chapter Summaries- Students will use the digital chapter by chapter summary to write a brief object
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7th - 9th
Close Reading: FDR's Four Freedoms Speech
9 Free-Response Text Dependent Questions, Detailed Teaching Plan, Annotation Guide, and Primary Source Reading of FDR's Four Freedom Speech -- all designed with secondary students in mind!As we all know, the Common Core demands a great deal more from teachers -- not least, the use of complex texts that challenge students to closely read for understanding. FDR's Four Freedoms Speech is an example of such a text, and now with this teaching packet, teachers can easily implement a close reading of i
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9th - 11th
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Sargon of the Akkadians - World History Mini-DBQ
Bring your unit on Mesopotamia to the next level by giving students the chance to find their own answers like a historian! In this mini-DBQ students will analyze one primary source about the reign of the first emperor Sargon of the Akkadians, and an infographic on the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin showing the conquering Akkadians riding into battle. Using that analysis, they'll answer the question "How did Sargon create the first empire in Mesopotamia?"Each source features lots of support for a var
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6th - 9th
The Hunger Games Novel Discussion Questions
Get your classes talking about The Hunger Games!Nothing sparks discussion more than intriguing questions, posted eye-catching backgrounds! :) With this resource, the odds of classroom engagement will "be ever in your favor"! This product includes the following resources:Whole novel set of discussion questions in pdf formatThree sets of Google Slides (fully editable) with the discussion questions broken into "Part One, Part Two, and Part Three" of the novel. Terms of Use (which lists on restricti
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6th - 10th
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Should Romeo and Juliet get married? NYS Regents aligned Argument Essay
This is a New York State Regents-aligned student argument essay that asks students to take a side on Romeo and Juliet's relationship: Should they get married? Using 2 engaging and thought-provoking articles, students will debate the pros and cons of their marriage during or after reading the place. My students argued this after completing Act 2 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This resource is ready to print and copy for your students online or in person! Articles are pulled from the H
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8th - 11th
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Ancient China Geography Reading Comprehension, Map, DBQ Activity BUNDLE
Learn about Ancient China Geography and Agriculture, including the rise of Chinese civilization along the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers and the dramatic differences between Inner and Outer China. Replace or Supplement your existing Textbook!Files are provided in PDF and PPT formats.Convert PPT files into Google Slides for upload to your student-only, password-protected Google Classroom. Refer to my detailed Terms of Use below for additional information.Click on the PREVIEW for each product to see al
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6th - 8th
Reading and Questions on Ghana, Mali, & Songhai (Ancient African Empires)
This lesson is designed for students to read about this history of ancient West Africa. It specifically covers the rise and decline of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. The 2-page original reading has a separate sheet of document-based questions (DBQs). I put them on a separate sheet in case you have multiple periods of the same class and want to print a class set of the reading to save copies. There is also a simple key for the DBQs for easy grading. There is an additional storyboard activity that you
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Ancient West Africa Reading Bundle (includes 2 readings with DBQs)
Causes of the Civil War DBW
Question, "How did the issues of slavery and states' rights lead to the Civil War?"
6 total documents, including a political cartoon, a summary of the Dred Scott case, and excerpts from the Fugitive Slave Act and a speech by John C. Calhoun
Includes space for students to write inferences and conclusions based on the document, and questions for students to consider in analyzing each document.
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5th - 8th
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Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Save 30% and get access to all four digital and print interactive notebooks for primary source analysis!This bundle includes:Primary Source Document Analysis Interactive NotebookAnalyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student NotebookHistory with Maps Interactive NotebookArtifact Analysis Interactive NotebookEach of these interactive student notebooks have been carefully designed to unlock source analysis for students while building higher level academic literacy. The pages can be
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9th - 12th
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Novel Study: The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
When Mark, a 12-year-old from Washington, runs away with his camera, his notebook, and his beloved dog, he’s got a plan and a reason. “The mountain is calling me,” he insists. In The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart, the main character's life goal is to reach the top of Mount Rainier, even if it kills him.This is a wonderful story on so many levels, so I wanted to create a novel study that allows students to show their comprehension in a variety of ways:Visually & Creatively - recreating Mark'
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5th - 8th
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DBQ: What Does the Longhouse Teach Us About the Iroquois? (Mirco-Q MV)
This is from the DBQ (document based questioning) online library. With a focus on the question, "What Does the Longhouse Teach Us About the Iroquois?" This powerpoint is designed for a teacher to be able to use knowledge of the DBQ and immediately teach the content, with little preparation of lessons.This is a powerpoint to accompany the DBQ Micro-Q 3-day lesson. The Micro-Q focuses on a single document and ends with a one-paragraph student "essay."Included within this PowerPoint are: Teacher Le
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1st - 5th
Culturally Responsive, Game Based U.S. History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up: Alliance
Put colonial North America into full context with over 25 lessons using activities, maps, an animated video, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the ALLIANCE board game (separate purchase). WARNING: History class will never be the same.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "A clever take on statecraft whereby six teams across colonial North America meet the triple challenge of nation building, international diplomacy, and economic sustainability. Iroquois Confederacy
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4th - 7th
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Grade 8 Smarter Balanced Assessment-English Language Arts, DOK Questions/Targets
The questions on the SBA Summative are written to address Targets (which represent the grade-level standards). These Targets help insure that the Summative Assessments will be consistent across the years. Therefore, similar questions will be asked year after year, and the questions represent what the standards consider critical for text comprehension.This document uses items from the Practice Tests that have been on the web Portal. What has been added are additional questions for the literary
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8th
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The Giver-Book/Unit Exam
This end-of-book/end-of-unit exam is on the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. This test was created at the end of a thematic unit titled "Individuals & Communities." The exam has five subsections. There is a multiple choice, matching, definitions, quote analysis, and short answer section. This test requires deep knowledge of the text and the thematic unit. Students will have to craft their responses for most of the test. The test document includes sample answers for all crafted answer questions.
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6th - 8th
Also included in: The Giver-Engaging Readers in the Classic
Close Read--Focus on Language of Text
These three lessons are editable for your convenience. Lessons 1-2 build understanding of the text, while lesson three allows for an assessment. Each lesson has built-in language supports ideal for all. Lessons 1-2 provide exemplars for the Central Tasks. We believe these lessons could be used in 8-12, but have been designed with our own 11th graders in mind under a unit of Ethnic America.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -Book/Unit Exam
This end-of-book/end-of-unit exam is on the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This test was created at the end of a thematic unit titled "Finding My Place" The exam has four subsections. There is a multiple choice, matching, quote analysis, and short answer section. This test requires deep knowledge of the text and understanding of the themes therein. Students will have to craft responses for half of the test. The test document includes sample answers for al
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7th - 10th
Argument, Claim, & Evidence Practice - Texting and Driving, Dangerous or Not?
Students can practice reading and annotating conflicting articles on the topic Texting and Driving. There are three articles, three infographs, a video, and an audio clip, to give the students practice with multimedia presentations on the same topic. There are standards-based questions throughout the presentation that can be answered individually or in a whole group setting. This presentation aligns with Florida standards LAFS.8.RI.3.7, RI.3.8 and RI.3.9.
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7th - 9th
"The Handmaid's Tale" & the Bumble Rebrand of 2024 Discussion Questions
Engage your students in a real-world and modern discussion about Bumble's recent rebrand with Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. This document (formatted as Microsoft Word Document) can easily be used as a discussion guide or reworked to to be an independent analysis assignment for students. It includes a total of 14 critical-thinking questions that reference societal influences and modern dating culture, connections to The Handmaid's Tale, and Feminist Literary Theor
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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STAMPED by Jason Reynolds: 45 Close Reading Documents with questions
Making African American History = American HistoryDigital FriendlyReading Stamped is not required for the readings, but their are readings for every topic and issue in Jason Reynold's text.45 DocumentsDocuments will put the power of history in the student's hands and encourage them to make their own meaning through questioning and critical analysis. Students are forced to break from their poor habits as academic receptacles and expected to be active agents in their own learning. This pack of doc
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Stamped by Jason Reynolds Bundle
The 95 These of Martin Luther; Common Core Approach
The 95 Theses of Martin Luther triggered the Reformation and brought an era of great change to Europe. The 95 Theses of Martin Luther triggered the Reformation and brought an era of great change to Europe. In a Common Core approach, the students are going to create an illustrated pamphlet by reading five of the “95 Theses” of Martin Luther, visually demonstrating their understanding, and concisely explaining why the Church’s actions angered him. Martin Luther was passionately defending Christ
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6th - 12th
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