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Common Core RI.11-12.1 dbqs
U.S. History | Gilded Age | Robber Barons or Captains of Industry Activity
This is a document based activity for the Gilded Age Unit. Students will work independently or in pairs/groups to:1) Introduction: Read a short 1 paragraph biography about Carnegie, Rockefeller & J.P. Morgan. Complete a short video activity.2) Read approximately 10 Primary Source Document excerpts and examine 2 political cartoons. (sources included: Carnegie's "Wealth", Ida Tarbell, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Political Cartoons and MORE....)3) While reading the primary sources, students will fi
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8th - 11th
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AP English Language and Composition Exam Study Guide
This document is 44+ pages of review for the AP English Language and Composition exam. It contains information about:Writing with sourcesAnnotating promptsRhetorical analysisIdentifying the rhetorical situation Argumentative writing with background knowledgeSample top scoring responsesThe structure of the exam & how the exam is scoredLinks to helpful YouTube videos that walk you through concepts you might have missedand more! It goes section by section of the exam and gives you tips and tric
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9th - 12th
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Modern Era 1970s 80s 90s 2000 Primary Sources Activity Analysis Worksheets
Guide your students through the struggles of our recent Presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump with a focused analysis of up to 7 different primary source documents using the effective HIPPOS method! This resource also comes in Google Slide format for a paperless option!Featured Presidents:Richard NixonGerald FordJimmy CarterRonald ReaganGeorge W. BushBarak ObamaDonald Trump (BONUS!)The effective HIPPOS framework directly targets Common Core critical thinking skills:Historical ContextInt
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8th - 11th
Also included in:Â Modern US History Primary Source Analysis Activities Worksheets
Crash Course Quilt: Alternative to Traditional DBQ Essay
Do your students love John Green’s Crash Course videos!?!? Well, this alternative project is inspired by the series and may be used in place of a traditional document based question (DBQ) essay.
After reading a chapter in the textbook, reviewing primary sources, or completing a unit, students will create a “quilt” using index cards. This printable file contains the directions for the front and back of each card. (4” x 6” index cards are recommended.) A rubric and student samples (fronts only)
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8th - 11th
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ENGLISH | MLK Speech: "I Have a Dream" The Power of Rhetoric - Speech Analysis
This lesson allows students read, explore, and analyze Dr. Martin Luther King's speech during the March on Washington during the civil rights movement. Students examine his speech, as he uses metaphors, poems, famous quotes, and hymns to convey a powerful message as he calls for equality and freedom in one of the most iconic speeches in American history.Students use a graphic organizer as they go through the document. Allowing for question prompts, help with vocabulary, and background informati
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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R2P and Humanitarian Intervention - IB Global Politics
This 2-3 day, no prep lesson, aims to deepen students' understanding of humanitarian intervention, Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and the complexities surrounding sovereignty, international law, and global security. Through a variety of learning activities, students engage with different perspectives and sources to critically examine these concepts and their real-world implications. The lesson includes:Â Warm Up: Students engage in a discussion about sovereignty and its implicationsVideo and Re
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Socratic Seminar: Who Should Be on American Currency?
The images we see around us daily have a subtle yet profound effect. In this Socratic seminar, students consider American currency and consider: should the faces on the bills be changed or stay the same? The learn who is featured on currency now and think on who could be. This activity can be used during an American History course as students learn about figures like Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, or can be used as a general debate in any Social Studies or English-Language Arts classroom.
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8th - 12th
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Haiti Crisis 2024 - IB Global Politics
This lesson explores the current crisis in Haiti, focusing on the political turmoil, gang violence, and humanitarian needs facing the nation. Students will engage in various learning activities to understand the situation, its causes, and potential solutions. Through source analysis, discussion, and collaborative research, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of Haiti's challenges and their implications. Learning activities include: Warm Up: Students will take a New York Times qui
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Haiti Crisis 2024 - Overview and Role Play - IB Global Politics
Fragile States 101 - IB Global Politics
The learning activities in this lesson are designed to engage students in exploring the concept of state fragility from various angles, including through discussions, video analysis, reading excerpts, and a case study. Here's a summary of the learning activities:1. Warm Up: Students answer questions to review previous knowledge on legitimacy and non-state actors, preparing them for the topic of state fragility.2. Video Analysis: Students watch a video titled "Fragile States - Gateway Introductio
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Fragile State Case Study: Haiti 2014 - IB Global Politics
Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Save 30% and get access to all four digital and print interactive notebooks for primary source analysis!This bundle includes:Primary Source Document Analysis Interactive NotebookAnalyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student NotebookHistory with Maps Interactive NotebookArtifact Analysis Interactive NotebookEach of these interactive student notebooks have been carefully designed to unlock source analysis for students while building higher level academic literacy. The pages can be
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9th - 12th
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AP Language Synthesis Essay with Bully Documentary
This prompt is an AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay question. It contains six reviews of the documentary BULLY that students must use to defend, qualify, or challenge a statement provided. I have limited the number of pages students may write to two, but it is an editable Word document. Likewise, this is a take-home assignment and would need to be modified slightly if done in a timed-situation. Modified AP Synthesis Rubric provided.
It obviously requires that students have watc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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McCarthyism/Cold War DBQ
This activity includes the use of 7 primary source texts (speech excerpts, photographs, and comic strip) to engage students and encourage them to interact with text and cite specific evidence. Each document comes with at least 3 questions. The questions build upon each other to help students see both sides of the issue with McCarthyism during America's Cold War Era. At the end, students will take the information they have gained while analyzing the documents and construct an argumentative essay.
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6th - 12th
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Phyllis Schlafly ERA Primary Source Writing Activity Print & Digital
Strengthen students' skills in analyzing two staunchly opposed perspectives: that of the 2nd wave feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s and that of Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of the STOP ERA movement. Then, weigh both in a text-driven, evidence-based extending writing sample.This resource comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides.**************************************Greatness is listening to and valuing opposing sides of a heated debate.Challenge your students with this plug-and-
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â US History Primary Source DBQ Writing Activities Print & Digital
U.S. SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS #1 and #2 CIVIL WAR
Short Essay Questions (SEQ) written EXACTLY as the New Framework for NYS U.S. Regents.There are 2 sets of documents, 1 with definitions embedded so that you can differentiate for struggling students and 1 without definitions.INCLUDED:4 primary source documents during the Civil War Era (2 for SEQ #1 and 2 for SEQ #2)Set #1 requires students to write a 2-3 paragraph essay describing the historical context of the documents and identify and explain the relationship between them.Set #2 also ask
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â U.S. SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS BUNDLE - 7 SEPARATE SETS - SAVE OVER 30%
Unit 10 - Constitutions
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Articles of Confederation through the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Sessions 10.1-10.5 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 hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)Guided notes handouts that closely follow the textA
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reagan Challenger Disaster Speech Unit
Unit Activities and Assessments include the followingAcademic vocabulary for the unit.  Examine the rhetorical situation using a rhetorical triangle infographic I created. For a better understanding of the text, we will examine the cultural context of America in January 1986.The text: “Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger” by Ronald Reagan.  Links to background videos.Ten multiple-choice reading comprehension questions, including an answer key.  Eight short-answ
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8th - 12th
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Unit 3 - The Spanish Empire
This bundle includes a full unit of content covering the Spanish Empire in the Americas. Sessions 3.1-3.4 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 hyperlinked to their unlisted YouTube URLs)A professional audio recording (.mp3 or .m4a) of the full Session, including the audio from each v
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fireworks SAT Passage with Questions and Key
An anchoring phenomenon of fireworks, the article is made in an SAT style and includes a set of questions with answer key. Great addition to any electron unit, including electron configuration or photoelectric effect. Works well for a substitute, opening assignment, homework, cross curricular, or WICOR assignment.
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9th - 12th
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HS-PS1-1
, HS-PS1-2
Analyzing a Photo Question Task Cards and Worksheets
Photography means “to write or draw with light,”. Analyzing a photo, therefore, is a logical extension of analyzing “texts”; documents we can read and read into, make sense of, and situate within a specific place and time. These question cards and worksheets for analyzing a photo will support students’ visual literacy skills as they apply to photography—strategies for reading, comprehending, and translating images into verbal language, while carefully guiding them through the process of academic
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Analyzing a Photo in Historical Context - Bundled Resources
Document Based Argumentative Writing Unit: Can Child Criminals Be Saved
This is a high interest step-by-step unit for students using provided documents to write an argumentative paper about the idea of child criminals and the punishments/consequences they deserve. The unit includes answer key, teaching notes, planning organizers, and a rubric.
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9th - 12th
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5-3-1 Summarizing/Analysis Graphic Organizer
Helpful for students who need help with summarizing/finding the main idea of a text or visual source, this graphic organizer can be used to analyze nonfiction texts, fictional texts, and primary source documents for social studies. This strategy helps students to flesh out the main ideas of a text, video, or visual source by providing a guide for analysis. This activity encourages academic discussion; promoting partner work for the completion of some portions of the activity. Used with my fifth
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Classic Child Labor Expose– The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906)
This is a lesson created to teach the use of child labor in the coal mining industry of the United States during the Industrial Age through the use of primary sources. The source included is an excerpt from John Spargo's The Bitter Cry of the Children– an expose into child labor. I use this in class as part of an investigation into wage earning families of the Industrial Age. This can also be used as a stand alone lesson that can be completed independently or in groups and discussions settings.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Industrial Age America (Bundle)
Analyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student Notebook
Take your students’ use of photographs as evidence to the next level with a carefully designed notebook that organizes and records their thinking while building their confidence as they analyze and contextualize historical images. Historical image analysis Introduces students to the richness of photographs and photographic ephemera as historical documents. In order to use source documents effectively in research of any kind, students must be able to perform effective source analysis. This social
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Federalist and Anti-Federalist DBQ
Documents from Federalists and Anti-Federalists (Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Mason, Henry, and Macon) Also a map showing the disbursement of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists. Questions to the selected quotes (documents) are engaging and require the student to fully understand the texts from the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers.
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8th - 12th
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