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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
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Slavery in the Southern Colonies: A Socratic Seminar
Looking for a higher order thinking activity? Need a way to close out a unit on the Southern Colonies? Do you want to do a Socratic Seminar with your students? Students will evaluate three primary source documents to answer document-based questions. Students will engage in higher-level thinking and improve listening and speaking skills during this common-core supported activity. This activity is appropriate for 5th-7th graders and meets the Common Core Standards for Speaking and Listening.
If
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Entrepreneurship: An Entire Semester Worth (500+ Pages) of PPs, Projects, DBQs
*All Lessons, PowerPoints, Projects, DBQs, Worksheets and Activities in this Bundle I Personally Have Used in my Classroom.Well Over 500 Pages of Information.This comprehensive bundle is tailor-made for a semester-long course on entrepreneurship, covering a wide array of topics crucial for understanding and navigating the entrepreneurial landscape. With a total of 44 items, this bundle offers a robust curriculum designed to engage high school students in practical and immersive activities relate
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
MEIJI RESTORATION: Causes and Effects 2 Days: Doc Analysis and Scaffolded Lesson
Teach your students about the Meiji Restoration with these 2 engaging and rigorous lessons. On Day 1 they will analyze primary and secondary source documents about Japan's isolation period through Commodore Matthew Perry's visits. On Day 2 they will engage in a scaffolded, interactive lesson about the Meiji Restoration and its effects. The resources include all lesson components: warm-ups, mini-lectures, short videos, student handouts, and conclusions. Answer keys and lesson plans are provided t
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8th - 11th
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BLACK LIVES MATTER, Current Events, Common Core Unit
Great for Black History Month! This full unit covers multiple perspectives on the "Black Lives Matter" debate and allows students to find their own point of view on the issue. The unit includes a literary connection, background, historical connections, an implicit argument, arguments across multimedia, photographic connections, a class debate planning system, a research guide, and space for an argumentative essay.
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9th - 12th
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The Hunger Games Novel Discussion Questions
Get your classes talking about The Hunger Games!Nothing sparks discussion more than intriguing questions, posted eye-catching backgrounds! :) With this resource, the odds of classroom engagement will "be ever in your favor"! This product includes the following resources:Whole novel set of discussion questions in pdf formatThree sets of Google Slides (fully editable) with the discussion questions broken into "Part One, Part Two, and Part Three" of the novel. Terms of Use (which lists on restricti
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6th - 10th
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AP Language Rhetorical Analysis Essay Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition rhetorical analysis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and scaffolding activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous rhetorical analysis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay withi
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education
AP Language Synthesis Essay Guided Worksheets & Activities Exam Prep Toolkit
Use these AP Language and Composition exam prep synthesis essay guided writing worksheets, graphic organizers, and activities to provide your struggling AP Lang students with approachable, yet rigorous synthesis essay writing opportunities throughout the year. Not only will these AP resources help your students meet the college-level writing requirements of the course, but they will also help them plan with a purpose, organize their thoughts, and complete their essay within that daunting AP exa
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Culturally Responsive, Game Based U.S. History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up: Alliance
Put colonial North America into full context with over 25 lessons using activities, maps, an animated video, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the ALLIANCE board game (separate purchase). WARNING: History class will never be the same.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "A clever take on statecraft whereby six teams across colonial North America meet the triple challenge of nation building, international diplomacy, and economic sustainability. Iroquois Confederacy
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4th - 7th
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Grade 8 Smarter Balanced Assessment-English Language Arts, DOK Questions/Targets
The questions on the SBA Summative are written to address Targets (which represent the grade-level standards). These Targets help insure that the Summative Assessments will be consistent across the years. Therefore, similar questions will be asked year after year, and the questions represent what the standards consider critical for text comprehension.This document uses items from the Practice Tests that have been on the web Portal. What has been added are additional questions for the literary
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8th
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Theories of Time Travel
This is a one day lesson to introduce the concept of time and time travel with your students! This lesson includes a fun bellringer, many discussion questions, engaging YouTube videos all wrapped up in a slides presentation. Included is also a guided notes sheet for your students to follow along with and complete their bellringer and exit ticket.Estimated class time is 75-90 minutes, depending on the length of your class discussions.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Christopher Columbus PBL Activity
The story of Christopher Columbus is full of controversy! In this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking social studies and ELA PBL activity, the students will become investigative reporters to discover Columbus's voyages' positive (+) and negative (-) effects on those involved. Students will put on their thinking caps as they close read historical fiction accounts in the first person (Columbus) and an interview with a Taino Chief, seeing both perspectives. They will also use math to test
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Christopher Columbus Interactive BUNDLE
The First Thanksgiving PowerPoint
An informative powerpoint about the history behind the first Thanksgiving
Includes: Primary source photos of the Mayflower II in Plymouth (with labels), external links to relevant sites/materials, maps, and diagrams.
Used as an excellent aide to a lecture about the first Thanksgiving, providing students with factual information and history
Can be used as an aide to a DBQ (I used it to accompany a Columbus DBQ to compare/contrast American history.)
(28 slides)
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4th - 8th
Science Discussion Sentence Starters (Editable version)
This editable resource is great for encouraging students to engage in MEANINGFUL science discussions. The Talk Tents can be used before, during or after activities such as labs, videos, discussions, readings, etc. With the new science standards in place (NGSS), students need to analyze tables/charts, discuss their ideas and develop their own investigations and these sentence starters will help students develop those skills. The Talk Tents can stay on the desks/tables and students refer to them a
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Grade 6 English Language Arts Smarter Balanced Summative , DOK Questions/Targets
The questions on the SBA Summative are written to address Targets (which represent the grade-level standards). These Targets help insure that the Summative Assessments will be consistent across the years. Therefore, similar questions will be asked year after year, and the questions represent what the standards consider critical for text comprehension.This document uses items from the Practice Tests that have been on the web Portal. What has been added are additional questions for the literary
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6th
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Grade 7 Smarter Balanced Assessment-English Language Arts, DOK Questions/Targets
The questions on the SBA Summative are written to address Targets (which represent the grade-level standards). These Targets help insure that the Summative Assessments will be consistent across the years. Therefore, similar questions will be asked year after year, and the questions represent what the standards consider critical for text comprehension.This document uses items from the Practice Tests that have been on the web Portal. What has been added are additional questions for the literary
Grades:
7th
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The Treaty of Versailles: Analyze a Political Cartoon!
Help your students think critically about the implications of the Treaty of Versailles with this fun activity! This NO PREP print and go activity is the perfect way to guide students through a political cartoon analysis. Supportive, clear, thought-provoking questions and instructions will guide them through a thorough analysis of one of the best-known political cartoons of the time. Once they finish their analysis, they'll be prompted to apply what they've learned to sketch a political cartoon t
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: GROWING WWI BUNDLE: Higher Order Thinking WWI Activities (SS5H2)
Because of Winn-Dixie Novel Study
In this 8 week novel study, students will be reading the Kate DiCamillo classic, “Because of Winn-Dixie.” This is a classic story of a girl and her dog and a relationship that will change their lives forever. This is a discussion based novel study. Each week, students will read 4 chapters on their own and answer questions to help prepare them for the discussion. Students are also developing discussion skills and the ability to support their ideas using evidence from the text. I have tried to mak
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3rd - 7th
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DIGITAL RESOURCE: Journey Box on Civic Participation
This is a digital resource. When you download the file, you will be given a document with three links to copy and paste. The Journey Box Presentation with 5 original primary sources, those 5 original primary sources modified for appropriate age levels, and a read aloud link to YouTube that helps elaborate on the focus of the journey box. Additionally, there are links to a Lesson Plan for opening the unit and to a narrative that helps explain modifications and content of the Journey Box. My favor
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3rd - 6th
The Great Gatsby Discussion/Socratic Seminar Notecatcher + Reflection #1
This note catcher can be used for a small group discussion or aSocratic Seminar. Students have two questions to answer and must support each discussion prompt with ideas and evidence from the text. The note catcher is a double-sided sheet that students fill out in advance of the discussion. The third page is a reflection space for students to take notes during the discussion and reflect after.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Socratic Seminar Packet 1984
A packet designed to prepare students to discuss the novel 1984 during a Socratic Seminar. The packet is designed to spark thematic discussions as well as text-specific discussions and to have students deepen their understanding prior to the seminar itself.
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8th - 12th
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Distance Learning Historical Analysis and Debate
This lesson provides a google slides analysis template and debate structure that can be applied to all historical inquiry, regardless of topic, within the physical classroom and online. Included you will find an analysis template that will allow you to:Guide students in the analysis of primary and secondary sources.Help them develop a claim and counterclaim to a historical question.Help them discover and provide evidence that supports their claim.Support their use of academic and content languag
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Science Discussion Sentence Starters (with graphics)
This resource is great for encouraging students to engage in MEANINGFUL science discussions. The sentence starters can be used before, during or after activities such as labs, videos, discussions, readings, etc. With the new science standards in place (NGSS), students need to analyze tables/charts, discuss their ideas and develop their own investigations and these sentence starters will help students develop those skills. The "Talk Tents" can stay on the desks/tables and students refer to them a
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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5 Types of Discussion Questions
These five types of open-ended, level three questions (enduring, critical, hypothetical, metacognitive, & socratic) provide students with structured ways to format ideas and facilitate higher-level discussion. These are especially good when using socratic seminars, whole class discussion, or generating ideas for analytical papers. Ideal for whole class novels, book clubs, articles, poems, short stories, or independent reading.Descriptions & examples of each type are provided on this one-
Grades:
9th - 12th
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