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Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Little Rock Nine Activity Kit Print & Digital
Tap into your students’ personal fears, decision-making skills, and creativity in these 6 activities that cover the actions and people, from President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus to the 9 Little Rock Central High School students themselves, that turned the first day of the school year into a crisis. What made Little Rock, Arkansas 1957 the collision of emotions and laws, of rights and responsibilities? Why did that photo of Hazel Bryan and Elizabeth Eckford capture the attention of the entire
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
Freedom Summer Primary Source Activity (Civil Rights) + GoogleApps Version
Freedom Summer Primary Source Activity teaches students about the efforts to register African Americans voters in the South and the fight against them. Using common core techniques, students analyze two primary source documents from both sides of the battle. Students get a deep common core understanding of the conflict between many southern whites and southern African Americans during the civil right era. This is a perfect primary source document to add to your civil rights movement unit. It ca
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Reconstruction DBQ Stations: Black Codes, Sharecropping, Lost Cause, Jim Crow
Why do so many American students mistakenly believe the Civil War was about states rights? Why do so many Americans fly the Confederate flag as a symbol of southern pride when the Confederacy broke from the Union and started a Civil War? Were formerly enslaved African Americans really free after the Civil War? These are difficult questions that will be answered in this student centered Reconstruction stations activity. Teach the horrors of Reconstruction using primary source documents so student
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Civil Rights Movement Primary Sources Activity Analysis Worksheets 6-Pack
Guide your students through Brown v. Board, Little Rock Nine, desegregation, the Civil Right Act of 1964, and the Selma March with a focused analysis of up to 6 different Civil Rights Movement primary source documents covering using the effective HIPPOS method! This resource comes in Google Slide format for a paperless option!Featured voices in this fight for equality:President EisenhowerSupreme CourtPresident KennedyGovernor WallaceGovernor FaubusPresident ObamaThe effective HIPPOS framework di
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8th - 11th
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Civil Rights Movement: Successes & Failures Data Analysis and Digital Resource
Civil Rights Movement: Successes & Failures Data Analysis is an excellent way to review the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement through common core analysis. First, students discuss the accomplishments of civil rights legislation, followed by common core analysis of data from recent U.S. Census Bureau information, where students consider the work that still needs to be done. This can be used in class or as homework as it’s a completely stand alone assignment. This is also perfect for substit
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Human Caused Climate Change ESS2.C Distance Learning Claim Evidence Reasoning
With this product students will understand the science behind humans causing climate change by reading an article and filling in a Claim Evidence Reasoning Chart/Graphic Organizer. Students will use evidence in the article that Human-caused climate change has made a substantial contribution to sea level rise, droughts, heat waves, tidal flooding and increases in global average temperatures that support the claim of the author.This resource is now Distance Learning optional! You get a link to mak
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-3
Era of Reform Abolition Primary Sources Activity Analysis Worksheets 6-Pack
Teach source analysis and bring richness to your US History course with these curated voices from Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others.This 6-pack also comes in Google files for a paperless option!Featured voices in this fight for change:Frederick DouglassDorothea DixElizabeth Cady StantonSojourner TruthHenry David Thoreau Factory laborersEffective HIPPOS framework to target historical & critical thinking skills:Historical ContextIntended AudiencePoint of ViewPurposeOutside
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9th - 11th
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Nonviolence Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement + Distance Learning Version
Nonviolence Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement is an excellent way to explore the strategies practiced by Dr. King, SNCC and CORE through common core analysis. Students read the Dr. King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence, SNCC’s Principles of Purpose and excerpts from CORE’s Workshops in Nonviolence. This can be used in class or as homework as it’s a completely stand alone assignment. This is also perfect for substitute teacher plans, and of course, a key is included.Also includes Google Apps
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Source Writing Activity Print & Digital
Strengthen students' skills in analyzing Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address and W.E.B. Du Bois’s response, "Of Mr. Washington and Others,” and playing them against the backdrop of the Gilded Age in a text-driven, evidence-based extended writing sample.This resource comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides.**************************************Greatness is finding common ground even when you passionately disagree with another person’s position.The decades after the Civ
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Primary Source DBQ Writing Activities Print & Digital
The True Story of Emmett Till Informational Text Article with Questions
Informational text article and questions about The True Story of the Murder of Emmett Till. Includes an abridged version of the 1956 article "The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi" with comprehension questions. Use as a pre-reading activity for your study of the Jim Crow era, in your To Kill a Mockingbird unit, in centers, in Literature Groups, as a supplemental activity, or as part of your social studies/history unit. Includes Answer Key. Includes both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VER
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8th - 10th
Civil Rights Movement Complete Unit (IB Rights and Protest)
This is a bundle of 20 lessons that is designed to educate about the Black Civil Rights movement.It starts with the origins of slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, legislation such as Plessy vs Ferguson and then examines a series of protests in the 1950's and 1960's.Legal decisions include: Plessy v Ferguson, Brown v Board and the Civil Rights ActProtests include: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock 9, Sit Ins, Freedom Riders, March on Washington and the Black PanthersThere is a ra
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8th - 12th, Staff
Plessy Versus Ferguson and the Jim Crow Laws - Informational Text and Questions
Informational Text Article with Questions on the case of Homer Adolph Plessy vs. The State of Louisiana. In June of 1892, a 30-year-old man named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "white" section of a railroad car. Plessy was only one-eighth black, but under Louisiana law was considered “colored,” and therefore was required to sit in the "colored car." In Homer Adolph Plessy vs. The State of Louisiana, Plessy argued that the separation violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
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8th - 10th
Sit-In Civil Rights Movement Protest DBQ Unit Print & Digital
Challenge students to dive deeper and think beyond themselves in this point-of-view focused unit on the sit-in protests that became a defining component of the Civil Rights Movement, thanks to the efforts of the Greensboro boys one evening in February 1960.This unit coversFounders' views on First Amendment rightsLandmark Supreme Court on protestThe backstory of Black civil rights prior to 1960Sit-In demonstrations throughout the early 1960sRecent Black Lives Matter demonstrationsThis unit streng
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8th - 11th
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Joan of Arc & Hundred Years War Pear Deck Google Slides Mini DBQ Women's History
Immerse your students in history with these engaging Pear Deck slides about the Hundred Years' War and the heroic story of Joan of Arc. This lesson includes a video summarizing the war and a primary source analysis to determine whether Joan of Arc should be remembered as a "warrior" or "heretic." With mixed-level questions to guide instruction, students will learn important ELA and DBQ skills such as finding and citing text evidence, identifying and applying domain-specific vocabulary, and compo
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6th - 8th
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Discover the power of source analysis -Christopher Columbus w/ graphic organizer
SPED READY ideal for ICT classrooms!GREAT for SUMMER REVIEW AMAZING for ALL classroom with diverse learners!Incudes:* Graphic Organizer* Annotations with key vocabulary * Highlighted key terms with definitions
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7th - 9th
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Women’s Suffrage Stations Activity with Primary Sources & Political Cartoons
Women's Suffrage 1920's Political Cartoon & Primary Source Inquiry ActivityStations Activity with Teacher Answer Guide!Essential Question: Were the social reforms of the 1920’s positive or negative for the United States?Women had to fight for equal rights. Many students don't realize much of American society was opposed to the 19th Amendment in the 1920's. This lesson has students will work in groups and answer guided reading questions and they unpack each authors argument. Students will unp
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8th - 12th
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Periodic Table Webquest Mystery of the Missing Element NGSS Chemistry
Need a way to engage your middle school science students in an introduction to the periodic table? This engaging lesson set is web-based and includes chemistry resources to help students learn about the periodic table, chemical elements, non-fiction texts, and more. Students learn about the history of the periodic table through cross-curricular connections to social studies with DBQs, and language arts through the reading and writing of non-fiction texts. This resource supports NGSS Middle Schoo
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5th - 8th
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MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
NEW Ethnic Studies Primary Source Reader
"Are you in need of comprehensive resources for your Ethnic Studies course? Look no further! Our Primary Source Reader for Ethnic Studies is the perfect toolkit for educators. It features 10 thought-provoking passages for each of the major ethnic groups in the curriculum: African-Americans, Indigenous, LatinX, and Asian/Pacific Islander. That's +40 passages. Each passage aligns with one of the four central themes: identity, migration, power, and resistance, spanning from historical documents to
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9th - 12th
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Enlightenment Thinkers Document Based Question (DBQ)
This is a complete DBQ (document-based question) on the topic of the EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT. This DBQ includes clear instructions, ample historical context, seven documents/sources, and a detailed rubric. This DBQ asks students to consider the following question: evaluate the social, cultural, and political reforms that Enlightenment thinkers sought in 18th-century European society. Students will analyze and evaluate historical sources by Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Francois Mar
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: World History & European History DBQs Bundle
Approaching the "N-Word" in Classic Literature Articles and Discussion Questions
Approaching the "N-Word" in Classic Literature Teacher Guide, relevant articles, and questions for discussion. One of the most difficult aspects of teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and similar classic texts is how to appropriately and sensitively approach the use of the “n-word” in the texts. This resource provides notes, articles, and questions that are relevant, real, and can spark sensitive, yet powerful, discussions. Two articles are prov
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
DBQ for Middle School - The Road to World War II: Primary & Secondary Sources
This no-prep resource is your complete guide to integrating literacy and social studies through a Document Based Question analysis and written response.This resource asks students to analyze primary and secondary sources in order to answer the essential question: How did the events and aftermath of World War I lead to World War II?Included within this resource are:1. Vocabulary2. DBQ: 5 documents with editable guiding questions3. A written response planning guide (editable)4. Mastery-based rubri
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6th - 10th
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Silent Sentinels Suffrage Movement DBQ Unit Print & Digital
Challenge students to dive deeper and think beyond themselves in this point-of-view focused unit on the women suffrage movement’s final act: Alice Paul and the Silent Sentinels' impatient bravery and steadfast dedication to the American value of equality that finally brought women the 19th Amendment's right to vote.This unit coversFounders' views on First Amendment rightsLandmark Supreme Court on free speechRecent protest movementsThe backstory of women's suffrage prior to 1917 Silent Sentinels
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8th - 11th
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Should We Celebrate Thanksgiving? DBQ Document-Based Question Investigation
Engage your students in critical thinking, historical analysis, and argumentative writing with this comprehensive DBQ (Document-Based Question) unit focused on the topic of Thanksgiving. This resource provides students with the opportunity to explore the historical origins of Thanksgiving, its modern-day celebrations, controversies surrounding the holiday, and the diverse perspectives on its continued observance.What's Included:1. DBQ Documents: Six thoughtfully selected documents, including pri
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7th - 10th
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