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Writing-expository Common Core RH.9-10.9 resources
Genghis Khan: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents deciding whether Genghis Khan is a hero or a villain or a mix of both by reviewing his record.Their mission? To go back in time to get to know the real Genghis Khan and speak to his advisors and citizens. Is his reputation as a brutal dicta
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Wax Museum, State, & Country Research Projects with Travel Brochures BUNDLE 9-12
Get your students excited about research reports with these fun and engaging social studies history research projects! This ready-to-go EDITABLE Biography Wax Museum, Ancient History Wax Museum, State Fair, EDITABLE Countries Around the World, and an EDITABLE (city, state, country, and continent) Travel Brochure bundle is for the entire year! Students can write a 9 paragraph research report or the graphic organizer can be used in place of the report for differentiated instruction. There are man
Grades:
9th - 12th
Printable Countries Around the World - Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates 9-12
Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Country Research Project! Students will create a trifold or float, and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills. Students gain and apply skills by working on a long project. They complete an in-depth inquiry into a specific topic. Students love the choice option! This engaging project has been modified from the original version for differentiated instruction. This No PREP project also inv
Grades:
9th - 12th
Unit 12 - 1798-1806
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Alien and Sedition Acts to the causes of the First Barbary War. (The original text of this unit can be found at nomadicprofessor.com in US2: The Noise of Democracy.)Sessions 12.1-12.4 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 hyperl
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
William Henry Harrison, Ninth President in the Presidential Series
Social Studies is the academic bedrock of our democracy, and the lives and careers of the Presidents clearly reflect the state of the nation and it policies and problems during each Commander-in-Chief's tenure, yet reading about the lives of the Presidents has been about as interesting as watching grass grow, until now. The Presidential Series accurately presents each President's life, career, tenure in the White House, problems, policies and challenges in an engaging faux-autobiography written
Grades:
7th - 10th
Thomas Jefferson: Third President in the Presidential Series
Though the lives of the Presidents are inextricably related to the history of any given period, presidential biographies are difficult to find, and those that are available are often so dry and boring that reading them is sheer torture, resulting in students many times not reading at all. However, this faux autobiography of President Jefferson is narrated in real time, is engaging, easily accessible, relevant and historically correct (I double checked dates and spellings, but the text is all ori
Grades:
8th - 11th
John Quincy Adams: Sixth President in the Presidential Series
The history of America in the early 19th Century, and the life, times and administration of President John Quincy Adams, come vividly to life and engage the readers with this faux-autobiography, written in real time. History can be so dry and lifeless, and yet it is perhaps one of our most important school subjects. so, this passage, written in the first person as a letter, gives students the feeling that the President is speaking directly to them! 25 professionally written, evidence based mult
Grades:
7th - 10th
Andrew Jackson: Seventh President in the Presidential Series
Torn between the power of the rich and greedy and the issue of slavery, America in the 1820's and 1830's was in political and social turmoil, but then came Andrew Jackson, unlettered, unrefined, but a man and President of the people. In this faux-autobiography the President speaks to your students in real time in the form of a letter. Engaging and accessible yet challenging and historically accurate (I double checked my dates and spellings, but the text is all original), the passage acquaints st
Grades:
7th - 11th
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