Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Source Writing Activity Print & Digital
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Step up your U.S. History units with these close readings of 2 paired short high-interest primary source documents, each with an accompanying extended writing template answering a thematic question.Each kit comes in both printable PDF and digital for Google Slides.***********************************Price $19.97Original Price $24.00Save $4.03
Description
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.
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Greatness is finding common ground even when you passionately disagree with another person’s position.
The decades after the Civil War quickly squashed any hopes that African Americans would be treated equally in industry, society, and politics. Those brave enough to take on this problem struggled to agree on the best path of success, despite wanting the same end goal. Will true equality ever come to millions of American citizens?
Challenge your students with this plug-and-play lesson to learn from Washington's rational perspective and Du Bois’s contrasting but respectful follow-up, and cause them to decide what they believe the more effective strategy to fight oppression is.
Included in this complete resource
- Detailed lesson plans with step-by-step directions
- Suggested answer keys
- Introductory brainstorm and Four Corners Discussion activity
- Concept Definition note taking sheet
- Two brief excerpts with background information, bolded academic words, guiding questions, and lined space for a written response
- Extended Analysis writing template
- Half-sheet rubric slips for writing response
- Printable PDF and Google Slide versions of all student sheets
- BONUS Skill Sheet: Annotating a Text
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Tips from my Classroom:
This is one of my go-to lessons to formatively assess my students on their analysis and writing skills. And because it incorporates student voice, close source analysis, and high-level writing all within one lesson, it makes the perfect go-to for observations.
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