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Common Core RI.11-12.7 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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Economics | 4 Types of Economies of the World | Document Based Activity
In this 11 page Economics activity, you have everything you need to conduct a lesson/student activity on the types of economies of the world (Command, Traditional, Market and Mixed). Includes a Traditional and Google version for your use!In this lesson your students will:1) Complete a short warm-up activity in which they read about Yeltsin’s trip to a grocery store and answer comprehension questions about the story.2) Examine a map with the rest of the class (class discussion) in which they eval
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Economics Activity Bundle | 20 + Simulations, Videos, Web-Quests & More!
Socratic Seminar: Who Should Be on American Currency?
The images we see around us daily have a subtle yet profound effect. In this Socratic seminar, students consider American currency and consider: should the faces on the bills be changed or stay the same? The learn who is featured on currency now and think on who could be. This activity can be used during an American History course as students learn about figures like Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, or can be used as a general debate in any Social Studies or English-Language Arts classroom.
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8th - 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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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
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9th - 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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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
Socratic Circle Bundle for All Contents
Are you a high school teacher sick of the same summative assessments? Trying to promote academic discourse, but not sure where to start? I have perfected a week long Socratic Circle lesson plan that can be used for virtually any high school classroom. Just plug your central question and resources in and GO!I have used this assessment in English, US History, World History, Government, Economics, and Social Justice, and Ethnic Studies to great success. The standards I have included are for 11-12,
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9th - 12th
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Analyzing a Photo - Stations
Analyzing a photo using social studies learning stations will carefully guide students through the process of academic primary source analysis while keeping the whole class engaged and accountable for their own learning. This resource includesOPCVL Overview page with each analysis step defined5 station signs15 analysis tasks overall3 tasks/question cards per analysis step8x11.5 question/task signs for learning stationclear, easy to read designHigher-level analysis questions to keep even your mos
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Analyzing a Photo in Historical Context - Bundled Resources
Eckford and Bryan: Looking at all sides of the Story DBI
Eckford was one of the first African-American students to attend the newly desegregated Little Rock High School. In the photo, you see her entering the school grounds while a throng of white students jeer, most prominently Hazel Bryan, teeth barred, enraged. The photo was disseminated worldwide within a couple of days, uncorking new support for civil rights. In this DBI, students will practice Deeply Viewing several documents in order to discover the “whole story” surrounding the primary source
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11th - 12th
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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
Socratic Circle Lesson Plan (JPEG)
Are you a high school teacher sick of the same summative assessments? Trying to promote academic discourse, but not sure where to start? I have perfected a week long Socratic Circle lesson plan that can be used for virtually any high school classroom. Just plug your central question and resources in and GO!I have used this assessment in English, US History, World History, Government, Economics, and Social Justice, and Ethnic Studies to great success. The standards I have included are for 11-12,
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Socratic Circle Bundle for All Contents
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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Primary Source Pack: 1950s Suburbanization: Good or Bad? 1950s Society
Looking for a way for students to evaluate the impact of suburbanization after World War II? Embed this interactive slide show into your learning managements system and have students draw conclusions from scholarly excerpts, describing the benefits and disadvantages of suburbanization. Source information is included so that students may consider the historical context of each sources' claims and conclusions. But, why waste your time creating the activities for this lesson? You can purchase the l
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9th - 11th
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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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Reusable Packet for Socratic Circles in High School
This reusable packet can be used to fit any type of Socratic circle, structured academic controversy, academic discourse, or guided discussion in your classroom! I have used this packet in English, US History, World History, Government, Economics, and Social Justice, and Ethnic Studies to great success.The Common Core standards I have included are for 11-12, but this activity could easily be scaled down for 7th-10th grade classrooms.Resource Includes:5 days of activitiesCommon Core StandardsRubr
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Socratic Circle Bundle for All Contents
Socratic Circle Lesson Plan (Virtual)
Are you a high school teacher sick of the same summative assessments? Trying to promote academic discourse, but not sure where to start? I have perfected a week long Socratic Circle lesson plan that can be used for virtually any high school classroom. Just plug your central question and resources in and GO!I have used this assessment in English, US History, World History, Government, Economics, and Social Justice, and Ethnic Studies to great success. The standards I have included are for 11-12
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Socratic Circle Bundle for All Contents
Reusable Virtual Packet for Socratic Circles in High School
This reusable packet can be used virtually on CANVAS, Google Classroom, etc. or can easily be modified to print as a paper resource. I have used this packet in English, US History, World History, Government, Economics, and Social Justice, and Ethnic Studies to great success. The standards I have included are for 11-12, but this activity could easily be scaled down for 7th-10th grade classrooms.Resource Includes:5 days of activities Common Core StandardsRubric based on Common CoreMultiple chanc
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Socratic Circle Bundle for All Contents
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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Data Analysis: Were LBJ's Great Society Social Programs "Great?"
Take students on a data-filled inquiry, examining the effects of Johnson's Great Society. Embed this interactive Google Slideshow in your school's LMS to create an engaging way for students to access charts and graphs. Students practice data analysis, historical thinking, and drawing conclusions using evidence and reasoning while they weigh whether Johnson's social programs had their intended impacts. Data includes: immigrationschool enrollmentwelfare spendingnational debtpoverty ratesand more!S
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9th - 12th
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Dred Scott Supreme Court Ruling Google Slides with Primary Source Analysis
These Google Slides include background information leading up to the Dred Scott ruling as well as a link to primary sources and questions over the Supreme Court ruling. Students will analyze the primary documents used in determining the judgment and answer questions about the documents and the ruling.
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8th - 12th
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