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Common Core SL.5.1c dbqs

Slavery in the Southern Colonies: A Socratic Seminar

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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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

DBQs, Assessment

CCSS:

SL.5.1

, SL.5.1a

, SL.5.1b

, SL.5.1c

, SL.5.1d

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The First Thanksgiving PowerPoint

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Finally Fourth

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)

Subjects:

Thanksgiving, U.S. History

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Lectures, PowerPoint Presentations, DBQs

CCSS:

SL.4.1c

, SL.5.1c

, CCRA.SL.1

, CCRA.SL.3