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Common Core RI.11-12.2 dbqs
U.S. History | Gilded Age | Robber Barons or Captains of Industry Activity
This is a document based activity for the Gilded Age Unit. Students will work independently or in pairs/groups to:1) Introduction: Read a short 1 paragraph biography about Carnegie, Rockefeller & J.P. Morgan. Complete a short video activity.2) Read approximately 10 Primary Source Document excerpts and examine 2 political cartoons. (sources included: Carnegie's "Wealth", Ida Tarbell, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Political Cartoons and MORE....)3) While reading the primary sources, students will fi
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8th - 11th
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AP English Language and Composition Exam Study Guide
This document is 44+ pages of review for the AP English Language and Composition exam. It contains information about:Writing with sourcesAnnotating promptsRhetorical analysisIdentifying the rhetorical situation Argumentative writing with background knowledgeSample top scoring responsesThe structure of the exam & how the exam is scoredLinks to helpful YouTube videos that walk you through concepts you might have missedand more! It goes section by section of the exam and gives you tips and tric
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9th - 12th
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Modern Era 1970s 80s 90s 2000 Primary Sources Activity Analysis Worksheets
Guide your students through the struggles of our recent Presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump with a focused analysis of up to 7 different primary source documents using the effective HIPPOS method! This resource also comes in Google Slide format for a paperless option!Featured Presidents:Richard NixonGerald FordJimmy CarterRonald ReaganGeorge W. BushBarak ObamaDonald Trump (BONUS!)The effective HIPPOS framework directly targets Common Core critical thinking skills:Historical ContextInt
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Modern US History Primary Source Analysis Activities Worksheets
Crash Course Quilt: Alternative to Traditional DBQ Essay
Do your students love John Green’s Crash Course videos!?!? Well, this alternative project is inspired by the series and may be used in place of a traditional document based question (DBQ) essay.
After reading a chapter in the textbook, reviewing primary sources, or completing a unit, students will create a “quilt” using index cards. This printable file contains the directions for the front and back of each card. (4” x 6” index cards are recommended.) A rubric and student samples (fronts only)
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8th - 11th
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Marbury v. Madison DBQ Landmark Case AP GOV
This DBQ resource is aligned with the New AP GOV Test Redesign for 2018-2019. This is a fantastic way to provide opportunities for students to analyze primary sources in order to get a better understanding of Marbury v. Madison and judicial review. The benefit of this one page resource is that students can complete it quick (30-45 minutes) while obtaining a depth of knowledge of the case (and practicing the skills necessary for the new test!!!) Each document contains a number of questions tha
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9th - 12th
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BLACK LIVES MATTER, Current Events, Common Core Unit
Great for Black History Month! This full unit covers multiple perspectives on the "Black Lives Matter" debate and allows students to find their own point of view on the issue. The unit includes a literary connection, background, historical connections, an implicit argument, arguments across multimedia, photographic connections, a class debate planning system, a research guide, and space for an argumentative essay.
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9th - 12th
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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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Unit 10 - Constitutions
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Articles of Confederation through the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Sessions 10.1-10.5 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)Guided notes handouts that closely follow the textA
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reagan Challenger Disaster Speech Unit
Unit Activities and Assessments include the followingAcademic vocabulary for the unit. Examine the rhetorical situation using a rhetorical triangle infographic I created. For a better understanding of the text, we will examine the cultural context of America in January 1986.The text: “Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger” by Ronald Reagan. Links to background videos.Ten multiple-choice reading comprehension questions, including an answer key. Eight short-answ
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8th - 12th
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Analyzing a Photo Question Task Cards and Worksheets
Photography means “to write or draw with light,”. Analyzing a photo, therefore, is a logical extension of analyzing “texts”; documents we can read and read into, make sense of, and situate within a specific place and time. These question cards and worksheets for analyzing a photo will support students’ visual literacy skills as they apply to photography—strategies for reading, comprehending, and translating images into verbal language, while carefully guiding them through the process of academic
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Analyzing a Photo in Historical Context - Bundled Resources
Unit 3 - The Spanish Empire
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Spanish Empire in the Americas. Sessions 3.1-3.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)A professional audio recording (.mp3 or .m4a) of the full Session, including the audio from each v
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fireworks SAT Passage with Questions and Key
An anchoring phenomenon of fireworks, the article is made in an SAT style and includes a set of questions with answer key. Great addition to any electron unit, including electron configuration or photoelectric effect. Works well for a substitute, opening assignment, homework, cross curricular, or WICOR assignment.
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9th - 12th
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HS-PS1-1
, HS-PS1-2
Analyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student Notebook
Take your students’ use of photographs as evidence to the next level with a carefully designed notebook that organizes and records their thinking while building their confidence as they analyze and contextualize historical images. Historical image analysis Introduces students to the richness of photographs and photographic ephemera as historical documents. In order to use source documents effectively in research of any kind, students must be able to perform effective source analysis. This social
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
5-3-1 Summarizing/Analysis Graphic Organizer
Helpful for students who need help with summarizing/finding the main idea of a text or visual source, this graphic organizer can be used to analyze nonfiction texts, fictional texts, and primary source documents for social studies. This strategy helps students to flesh out the main ideas of a text, video, or visual source by providing a guide for analysis. This activity encourages academic discussion; promoting partner work for the completion of some portions of the activity. Used with my fifth
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Federalist and Anti-Federalist DBQ
Documents from Federalists and Anti-Federalists (Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Mason, Henry, and Macon) Also a map showing the disbursement of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists. Questions to the selected quotes (documents) are engaging and require the student to fully understand the texts from the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers.
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8th - 12th
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Unit 4 - The French and the English
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the French and English colonization efforts in the Americas. Sessions 4.1-4.4 include the following resources:The full text of each Session from the Nomadic Professor's online American History course (nomadicprofessor.com)Exclusive on-location mini-lectures from the Nomadic Professor (the thumbnails for each video in the PDF are hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)A professional audio recording (.mp3 or .m4a) of the full Session, includ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5.5 - Document lesson: Why do interpretations of past events change over time?
This file includes a full document-based lesson:6 primary and secondary sources grouped around a guiding questionA handout on historical literacy (sourcing, contextualizing, reading and inferring, and corroborating)A graphic organizer for focusing attention on key information, organizing ideas, and drawing attention to similarities and differences between the sourcesSupport for students working virtually and/or independently:Model answers in the student handoutVideo guidance modeling how to read
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Unit 5 - The North and the South
Primary Source Document Analysis Interactive Notebook
Help your students master history primary source analysis with this carefully designed interactive student notebook that organizes and records student’s historical analysis while building their confidence in academic literacy.Primary source document analysis forces us to understand a document within its context; to be able to competently analyze any document we have to understand the circumstances surrounding why the text exists in the first place. Writing in itself is a human invention and can
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Cause of the Civil War DBQ
In this common core aligned, inquiry based activity, students will analyze primary sources to determine the cause of the American Civil War. Sources include both textual and visual sources and are paired with questions to help guide student analysis and develop their historical and critical thinking skills. Students will then use their findings to write a full 5-paragraph DBQ essay using the sources as evidence to support their argument as to what the true cause of the Civil War was. A graphic o
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7th - 12th
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Document Set: Photography and Urban Life: How the Other Half Lives
Looking for a dynamic way to present a collection of primary source images about urban life in the Gilded Age? Check out this "gallery" of images from the period! Embed this Google Slideshow into your LMS so students can analyze the visual sources, identifying positive and negative conditions in cities, as well as compare the life of the rich and poor during the Gilded Age. DID YOU KNOW?You can follow my store by clicking HERE or look for the green star next to my store logo. You can also join m
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8th - 11th
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Overland Trails Escape Game: APUSH 5.1.I.A
The primary source documents used in the puzzles help expand the traditional narrative of American history textbooks through the inclusion of the accounts of women. Primary sources provide students first-hand accounts rarely found in secondary social studies textbooks (Scheuerell, 2019). I selected sources that represented multiple perspectives, particularly counternarratives and marginalized voices (Crowley & King, 2018). The lack of women and girls in textbooks and curriculum expands the b
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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Andrew Carnegie Historical Inquiry Document Pack
Conduct an historical investigation about Andrew Carnegie. Was he a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron? This interactive Google slideshow can be easily embedded into your school LMS to give students a dynamic way to access and analyze source information, identify primary source evidence, and generate conclusions about industrialists in the Gilded Age. It could also be downloaded, printed, and used in a gallery walk or Jigsaw format.Documents include: Charts and Graphs of steel production and
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10th - 11th
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Frederick Douglass, Narrative, Reading Practice, Primary Source
Students read the first-hand account of how 16-year-old Frederick Douglass bested a slave-breaker and how he escaped from slavery by disguising himself as a sailor. This handout provides students with space for practicing annotations and note-taking. Excellent practice for Common Core State Standards. Ideal for US History and English classes.
Recommended use: Model how you would like students to annotate on the first paragraph. Discuss sensitive language and purpose for studying this document.
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8th - 12th
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Industrial Age Working Conditions (Women)
This product was created to bolster my Gilded/Industrial Age Unit. My particular unit focuses on the lives and working conditions of wage earners. This particular lesson is an engaging way to look at the lives of young Industrial Age female workers in their own words. This is an effective way to incorporate primary sources into your content in an engaging manner.
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Industrial Age America (Bundle)
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