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Common Core CCRA.SL.3 dbqs
Slavery in the Southern Colonies: A Socratic Seminar
Looking for a higher order thinking activity? Need a way to close out a unit on the Southern Colonies? Do you want to do a Socratic Seminar with your students? Students will evaluate three primary source documents to answer document-based questions. Students will engage in higher-level thinking and improve listening and speaking skills during this common-core supported activity. This activity is appropriate for 5th-7th graders and meets the Common Core Standards for Speaking and Listening.
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5th - 8th
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AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Essay Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition rhetorical analysis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and scaffolding activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous rhetorical analysis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay withi
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
AP Language Synthesis Essay Guided Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition exam prep synthesis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous synthesis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay within that daunting AP exa
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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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Christopher Columbus PBL Activity
The story of Christopher Columbus is full of controversy! In this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking social studies and ELA PBL activity, the students will become investigative reporters to discover Columbus's voyages' positive (+) and negative (-) effects on those involved. Students will put on their thinking caps as they close read historical fiction accounts in the first person (Columbus) and an interview with a Taino Chief, seeing both perspectives. They will also use math to test
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Christopher Columbus Interactive BUNDLE
Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamilton: Six Day Informational Text Unit
This digital informational unit is designed to engage students in ELA and Social Studies standards about American History, rhetorical devices, corroborating sources, reading primary and secondary sources, listening and speaking skills, opinion-based writing, and so much more. This six-day unit is fast-paced and highly engaging. This isn't your white-washed textbook version of our founding fathers. This is a comprehensive look at Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson with the essential question
Grades:
9th - 12th
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The First Thanksgiving PowerPoint
An informative powerpoint about the history behind the first Thanksgiving
Includes: Primary source photos of the Mayflower II in Plymouth (with labels), external links to relevant sites/materials, maps, and diagrams.
Used as an excellent aide to a lecture about the first Thanksgiving, providing students with factual information and history
Can be used as an aide to a DBQ (I used it to accompany a Columbus DBQ to compare/contrast American history.)
(28 slides)
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Science Discussion Sentence Starters (Editable version)
This editable resource is great for encouraging students to engage in MEANINGFUL science discussions. The Talk Tents can be used before, during or after activities such as labs, videos, discussions, readings, etc. With the new science standards in place (NGSS), students need to analyze tables/charts, discuss their ideas and develop their own investigations and these sentence starters will help students develop those skills. The Talk Tents can stay on the desks/tables and students refer to them a
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Grade 6 English Language Arts Smarter Balanced Summative , 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
Grades:
6th
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Grade 7 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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7th
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"Everyday Leadership" TED Talk Questions
This product includes the transcript of the TED Talk "Everyday Leadership" by Drew Dudley as well as ten multiple-choice questions. The multiple choice questions address central idea, word meanings, analyzing interactions, and inferencing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Because of Winn-Dixie Novel Study
In this 8 week novel study, students will be reading the Kate DiCamillo classic, “Because of Winn-Dixie.” This is a classic story of a girl and her dog and a relationship that will change their lives forever. This is a discussion based novel study. Each week, students will read 4 chapters on their own and answer questions to help prepare them for the discussion. Students are also developing discussion skills and the ability to support their ideas using evidence from the text. I have tried to mak
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3rd - 7th
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The Great Gatsby Discussion/Socratic Seminar Notecatcher + Reflection #1
This note catcher can be used for a small group discussion or aSocratic Seminar. Students have two questions to answer and must support each discussion prompt with ideas and evidence from the text. The note catcher is a double-sided sheet that students fill out in advance of the discussion. The third page is a reflection space for students to take notes during the discussion and reflect after.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Science Discussion Sentence Starters (with graphics)
This resource is great for encouraging students to engage in MEANINGFUL science discussions. The sentence starters can be used before, during or after activities such as labs, videos, discussions, readings, etc. With the new science standards in place (NGSS), students need to analyze tables/charts, discuss their ideas and develop their own investigations and these sentence starters will help students develop those skills. The "Talk Tents" can stay on the desks/tables and students refer to them a
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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Conversation Starter Posters
These posters have conversation starters that students can use during classroom discussions. Elaborate and Clarify - these include options that students can use to keep the discussion going Support - this helps students explain where they found the information for their claims Pose an Idea - these are great for when students are bringing up a new idea
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Not Grade Specific
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