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Civics Common Core RI.9-10.5 resources
Media and Information Literacy Text Analysis Bundle
This bundle includes 6 engaging informational texts about important topics in media and information literacy. Texts cover confirmation bias, social media and misinformation, "fake news," facts and opinions, media bias, and more. Each text includes a study guide and a set of 10 challenging text analysis questions, plus detailed answer explanations. I love resources that build both content knowledge and academic skill. These informational texts cover key topics in media and information literac
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8th - 11th
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Business Law Ethics Civics Responsible Decision Making Social Scenarios Activity
This Business Law Bundle is Packed with Real Life Choices that have Consequences.Here are the Highlights of these 4 Resources...(1) Business Law is About Citizen Ethics, Integrity and Civic Responsible Conduct.This Product is a FUN Introduction to Business Law! This Lesson is full of ethical decision making and moral debates. This 'mini-course' is loaded with activities to keep your class awake and aware!The “Spider in Your House” theme engages students to: Use critical thinking skills as appli
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9th - 12th
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Social Media and Misinformation Informational Text | Media Literacy | Grades 7+
This resource includes an engaging informational text about social media and misinformation, plus a study guide, a set of 10 challenging text analysis questions, and detailed answer explanations. The passage discusses how social media sites can help misinformation spread, and covers concepts like algorithms and echo chambers.I love resources that build both content knowledge and academic skill. These informational texts cover key topics in media and information literacy, while also providing st
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Media and Information Literacy Text Analysis Bundle
Business Law Ethics - Civics and Citizenship Decision Making Social Scenarios
Business Law is About Citizen Ethics, Integrity and Civic Responsible Conduct.This Product is a FUN Introduction to Business Law! This Lesson is a PDF presentation full of ethical decision making and moral debates. This 'mini-course' is loaded with activities to keep your class awake and aware!The “Spider in Your House” theme engages students to: Use critical thinking skills as applied to ethical conduct. Assess SITUATION-PROBLEM-RESOLUTION-OUTCOME as applied to real life issues. Activities c
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9th - 12th
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Fact, Opinion, and Misinformation Informational Text | Media Literacy | Gr 7+
This resource includes an engaging informational text about facts, opinions, and misinformation, plus a study guide, a set of 10 challenging text analysis questions, and detailed answer explanations. The passage discusses the way in which misinformation can spread when people confuse facts and opinions and covers the concept of confirmation bias.I love resources that build both content knowledge and academic skill. These informational texts cover key topics in media and information literacy, wh
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Media and Information Literacy Text Analysis Bundle
Love Letter to a US Amendment: Government Civics Valentine's Writing Activity
This fun Valentine's Day writing activity allows students to show their creative or funny side without getting behind in content. This writing activity requires students to use historical claims to write a love letter to their favorite amendment. Suitable for Civics, US Government, or Comparative Government.IncludesScaffolded instruction page and resource websitesThree Differentiated pages: one scaffolded for ELL/IEP/504 with checklist rubric, one with lines and checklist rubric, and one with a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fake News and Misinformation Informational Text | Media Literacy | Grades 8+
This resource includes an engaging informational text about fake news and misinformation in the digital age, plus a study guide, a set of 10 challenging text analysis questions, and detailed answer explanations. The passage discusses the ways in which fake news and misinformation can spread, covers concepts like sensationalism, and recommends a process for evaluating information effectively.I love resources that build both content knowledge and academic skill. These informational texts cover ke
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Media and Information Literacy Text Analysis Bundle
Business Law Ethics Civics: Marriage Contracts Decision Making Social Scenarios
Lots of People Get Married - And Many Don't!Learn the Caveats and Advantages to Considering Marriage Choices.True Life Marriage Planning, Contracts and Common Social Scenarios! A comprehensive yet concise Business Law PDF presentation.This 'mini-course' is easy to understand overview on marriage contracts.Lots of discussion starters to spark and ignite class engagement.The “Spider in Your House” is a learning concept applicable to all situations. Learn how reactions to spiders are similar to r
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plans: Interactive Discussion Strategies
The structured academic controversy lesson plan is one of the best discussion strategies in the classroom and critical thinking group activities because it relies on teamwork and respectful communication among students while developing close reading, writing, speaking, and active listening skills. Benefits of using Structured Academic Controversy in your Classrooms includes:Promotes critical thinking: SACs are one of the best exercises for critical thinking because they require students to deep-
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8th - 12th
President Barack Obama’s 2017 Farewell Address – Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the Common Core annotated text and marginal notes for President Barack Obama’s Farewell Address delivered in Chicago, IL on January 10, 2017. This resource includes 110 marginal notes aligned to Common Core standards and elements. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in M
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Science and Misinformation Informational Text | Media Literacy | Grades 7+
This resource includes an engaging informational text about data, science, and misinformation in the digital age, plus a study guide, a set of 10 challenging text analysis questions, and detailed answer explanations. The passage focuses on misinformation about data and science, using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic.I love resources that build both content knowledge and academic skill. These informational texts cover key topics in media and information literacy, while also providing students
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Media and Information Literacy Text Analysis Bundle
Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plan - Defund the Police
This Structured Academic Controversy lesson plan provides you with a measured, highly structured, and respectful approach for one of the most contentious and divisive debate topics for high schoolers in US History and government classes: Should Police Departments Be Defunded, if Not Abolished? The SAC approach encourages critical thinking, teamwork, and respectful communication among students while developing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Using content developed byProCon, the
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10th - 12th
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Case Study: Profile of a Vigilante
This is an extremely hot topic in world today. Bring a historical and psychological perspective to your Civics / Legal Studies / Government class with this valuable resource. Written in a clear and comprehensive manner, this reading takes students into the mind of the vigilante, and includes historical and Hollywood references which are certain to provoke a lively class discussion. Questions are included, along with an answer key, which allows for this resource to also be used as an assessment p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Serial Podcast/Justice System Unit
This bundle contains a unit plan for using season 1 of the Serial podcast, 12 Angry Men and the Bill of Rights for teaching. The PPT focuses solely on the Serial podcast portion and is focused on ELA skills and standards. However, it can also be used DBQ style for Civics. The attached rubric and checklist are rfor the evidence board project for Serial in which students must evaluate the evidence, make claims and counterclaims and write an argument.
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9th - 10th
Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plan: Space Colonization
This Structured Academic Controversy lesson plan provides you with one of the best exercises for critical thinking you can do with students that engages one of the most current debate topics for high schoolers today: Should Humans Colonize Space? The structured academic controversy lesson plan approach is one of the best critical thinking group activities because it relies on teamwork and respectful communication among students while developing close reading, writing, speaking, and active listen
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7th - 10th
Frederick Douglass - What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Lesson Plan
Ethos, Logos, and Pathos as Rhetorical Devices: This lesson focuses on Douglass’s use of ethos, logos, and pathos as rhetorical devices in “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Students will analyze passages from the speech and explain how Douglass employs appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade the audience that slavery should be abolished in the United States. In studying Douglass’s use of the rhetorical devices for persuasive effect, students will be able to identify and describe
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9th - 12th
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The Declaration of Independence - Lesson Plan
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Used for Persuasive Effect: This lesson plan focuses on how Jefferson employs specific rhetorical devices for persuasive effect in the Declaration of Independence. Students will identify examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in the text and explain why they are effective in supporting the American colonists’ claim for independence. In studying these rhetorical devices, students will be better able to describe the ideas Jefferson presents in the declaration and assess the
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9th - 12th
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Salam Neighbor, documentary film questions
This resource comprises a short pre-viewing assignment, three guiding worksheets, and an answer key, following the excellent documentary, Salam Neighbor. Ideally, this assignment would be broken into at least three class periods. This film is an excellent resource for topics including, immigration and refugees, immigration law and policy, humanitarian efforts, morality, etc. This assignment would lend itself very well to subjects including but not limited to, English Language Arts, Social Studie
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9th - 12th
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The Constitution of the United States for students
This is the United States Constitution adapted to allow middle and high school students comprehend the information contained within the document. This is not a summary, but rather a contemporary English version of the original text. The Flesch-Kincaid reading level for this document is 9.2. This also includes adapted versions of the amendments and vocabulary words. This also includes a guided reading document, an argument analysis sheet, a synthesis sheet and a quiz. When I used it, I had them
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7th - 9th
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Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plan - Student Loan Debt Elimination
This Structured Academic Controversy lesson plan provides you with a measured, highly structured, and respectful approach for one of the most critical debate topics for high schoolers in US History and government classes: Should Student Loan Debt Be Eliminated via Forgiveness or Bankruptcy? The SAC approach encourages critical thinking, teamwork, and respectful communication among students while developing reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The issue of student loan debt is a hot
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9th - 12th
World War II Changes on the Homefront Research Project & Primary Sources
World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939 following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. Around the same time, the Japanese Empire was conquering territory in East and Southeast Asia. Despite the gains of the Axis Powers across the globe, the United States remained neutral, unwilling to get involved in a conflict many Americans believed did not affect them. This attitude changed, however, following the surprise attack by the Japanese on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Decemb
Unit Plan: Understanding the Judicial Process Unit - ELA and Civics Standards
This unit combines both ELA and Civics standards and can be taught in either course. The unit combines an understanding of central idea, development of central ideas, the judicial system and relevant and reliable evidence. It uses texts such as Serial season one, 12 Angry Menand the Bill of Rights. This plan includes suggested products and assessments, reading comprehension tasks, writing tasks and more. This can optionally be paired with the Serial unit PowerPoint in my store. The PPT only focu
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9th - 10th
Also included in: Serial Podcast/Justice System Unit
Pres. Barack Obama 2016 Speech at the Democratic Convention-Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the Common Core annotated text and marginal notes for President Barack Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention delivered in Philadelphia, PA on July 28, 2016. This resource includes 85 marginal notes aligned to Common Core standards and elements. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. U
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6th - 12th
Structured Academic Controversy Lesson Plan: Prison Privatization
This Structured Academic Controversy lesson plan provides you with one of the best exercises for critical thinking you can do with students that engages one of the most current debate topics for high schoolers in US History and government classes: Should Prisons Be Privatized? The structured academic controversy lesson plan approach is one of the best critical thinking group activities because it relies on teamwork and respectful communication among students while developing close reading, writi
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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