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7th grade Spring criminal justice - law dbqs
Sharecropping and Reconstruction Primary Source Analysis Activity
In this Sharecropping and Reconstruction primary source activity, students analyze a sharecropping contract that was offered during Reconstruction and examine the unfair clauses to showcase just how unfair life was for sharecroppers. Students can work individually or in teams to dissect the sharecropper contract, but the overall goal is the same, to showcase just how unfair these contracts were for the freedmen. Once finished, students produce a short writing piece to explain what they believe
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6th - 9th
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History Crime Scene Investigation: CSI Hamilton Duel At Dawn
Hamilton was so much more than just an amazing play on Broadway.
Want a great way for students to engage in a group activity while they examine eyewitness testimony, artifacts, primary sources, and solve a historical mystery? Download The Hamilton Duel at Dawn CSI!
This exciting activity can be used to challenge individual students or to encourage collaboration in groups of up to five people. Students form CSI teams and examine real evidence from the duel between Vice President Aaron Burr an
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7th - 12th
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US Government Year Long Curriculum
Year Long Curriculum created based on the Street Law textbook. Includes:PowerPointsTests/quizzesMock Trials including procedures and court rulesWorksheets and study GuidesAmendment daily bellwork/project
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7th - 12th
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HISTORY DETECTIVE: Death of President Zachary Taylor - Primary Source Analysis
For this installment of HISTORY DETECTIVE, students will examine primary and secondary source documents and use evidence from those documents to justify their claim concerning a 170-year-old mystery: Who Killed President Zachary Taylor?
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On July 4, 1850- after only 16 months in office- President Zachary Taylor was in the middle of a heated battle over slavery in the new territories. The "Compromise of 1850" and its controversial Fugitive Slave Act was tearing the nation apart. He
Grades:
7th - 12th
My Lai Massacre Primary Source Comparison
This assignment has students look at the different perspectives of the My Lai Massacre. They read from Lt. William Calley, other soldiers who were involved, a letter from a citizens of My Lai, and look at a cartoon and newspaper front page. They will be asked to make three conclusions about each source. For the conclusions, they should describe what each source says/shows happens and why it happened. There is one summary question that asks students to explain how the events of My Lai helped lead
Grades:
7th - 12th
Death Row: The Final 24 Hours Video Graphic Organizer (Worksheet)
This is a worksheet for students to follow along to while watching Death Row: The Final 24 Hours documentary originally published on Discovery HD Channel. It goes over the various forms of execution used for Capital Punishment in the United States and what it is like on the last day for inmates on death row. This worksheet will allow students to take the information from the documentary and synthesize the information to the fullest extent.Key Features:Video-Based Questions: Elevate assessment ex
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6th - 12th
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Bill of Rights Jigsaw Activity
This is an easy-to-implement but collaborative and rigorous activity for a U.S. government, history or introductory law or civics course. In it students focus on 2 amendments and then report on historical and contemporary issues related to those respective amendments. As a result, your students walk away with much more knowledge while saving you some valuable class time.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War Primary Source Worksheet
This worksheet allows students to use short primary source documents to learn about Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War. The worksheet allows students to read five short primary sources related to Billy the Kid. The primary sources focus on the Billy the Kid before, during, and after the Lincoln County War. The worksheet includes eight questions and an answer key for the teacher. The readings are very engaging for students. Students will also be highlighting or underlining parts of the prim
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War Lesson Plan Collection
Salem Witch Trials - False Confessions
Witches are fictional. At least, the sort the fly through the air are. So why would the people of Salem confess to being one when the punishment for witchcraft was death? The answer is partly related to the circumstances of the day, but are not necessarily restricted to the time. Confessing to crimes that you are not guilty of still occurs, and modern theories in criminal justice can help us understand this behavior.This lesson asks students to contrast testimony from the accused witches of Sale
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â U.S. History I Bundle
Hammurabi's Code History Investigation
In this engaging history investigation, students analyze laws in Hammurabi's Code to construct an argument explaining why the laws were unfair the people they were supposed to protect. This resource includes document based questions and writing prompt. *This resource is included in the Ancient Mesopotamia Unit linked below along with many other engaging activities!Ancient Mesopotamia Unit
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6th - 9th
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Ancient Rome - Twelve Tables Analysis - Crime & Punishment
Students will analyze an abridged version of the Roman Twelve Tables to assign punishments for 6 different crimes. Great partner or individual activity. Connections can be made to Hammurabi's Code. Answer key included for teacher use.
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6th - 9th
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US History Essay - Civil Liberties During War - English/Spanish
Hello! Attached is an essay geared toward the NYS Framework Regents, focusing on civil liberties during war. Students will analyze 6 documents, respond to DBQ questions, and argue the historical context/significance surrounding: the Bill of RightsCivil Liberties during the Civil War (suspension of Habeas Corpus)WWI (Espionage Act) WWI (Schenck v United States)WWII (Japanese Internment Camps)War on Terror (Patriot Act) Pages 1-7 are directions, documents, and responsesPages 8 through 16 include p
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7th - 12th
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Justinian I/Byzantine Empire/Justinian's Code DBQ and PowerPoint With Key
This includes a four-slide PowerPoint on Justinian I and a DBQ on Justinian's Code. The DBQ goes over two primary source passages of his code and asks 4 critical thinking questions. It also includes an answer key. The DBQ is a Word Doc.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Legal Codes PPT Slideshow 15+ Days (Hammurabi, Iroquois, etc.)
Attached is an in-depth PPT slideshow that spends around two days each on the various legal codes throughout history (Hammurabi, Roman Law, Mosaic Law, Justinian, Magna Carta, Colonial American Law, and Iroquois Law).Included in Each PPT Lesson:Learning IntentionNext Generation Learning StandardsSuccess CriteriaActivitiesCartoonsVisualsQuotesDo NowsSummaries
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Legal Codes Bundle (PPT, Worksheets, Assessment, & Study Guide)
US History: Gunfight at the OK Corral
EDITABLE reading comprehension packet on the clash between Wild West Outlaws and the Federal Marshals at the OK Corral in the town of Tombstone. Packet includes key information, pictures for visual learners, and reading comprehension questions with space to answer them right on the page.
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7th - 12th
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ENL - International Criminal Court (English and Spanish)
Attached is a literacy based ENL lesson focusing on an overview of the International Criminal Court. This lesson, like all of my lessons, is 100% translated in English and Spanish. I regularly include leveled texts to assist students with language development, images to assist with understanding, and translations to assist our newest students.Are you looking for more Global ENL materials?https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Full-Global-History-Curriculum-AND-Google-Docs-Downloads-6336105M
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7th - 12th
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 24/25 - Genocide/Human Rights - 10th Grade
Eighteen short-answer questions, worth 23 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about genocide, child soldiers and modern human rights issues. These 14 pages of questions can be useful to any social studies curriculum based on world/global history. This assignment correlates to my 10th grade Unit 19 (Out of 20 total 10th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history.Unit 19 (Global Conflicts & Human Rights)Many of the following sub-topics
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
FREE LESSON: Racial Issues in the Past and Today
This is a lesson that is, perhaps, very important to all social studies classrooms in the United States. This lesson is a beginning of the year activity designed to have students discuss racial issues and wrongs that occurred in the past year and, of course, throughout history.Topics discussed:2020 Protests following the death of George FloydJuneteenthTulsa MassacreMartin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream" SpeechStudent feelings based on the current state of the U.SThe lesson was designed withou
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7th - 12th
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US History: The Waxhaw Massacre
EDITABLE reading comprehension packet on the Revolutionary War massacre of the Buford Virginia Militia by British cavalry at Waxhaw. Packet includes key information, pictures for visual learners, and reading comprehension questions with space to answer them right on the page.
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7th - 12th
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Scopes Trial: Document Analysis and Write Around
This activity centers around contrasting documents from the lawyers in the Scopes Trial. Students are required to analyze the documents and illustrate the clash in values and ultimately develop arguments about fundamentalism and modernity through a Write Around activity. This student-centered activity enages students and creates a way for them to work together and be creative while tackling these very important issues of the 1920s. Straight from CBails History...check it out!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Presidential system Versus Parliamentary system
This is a chart to help students analyze the difference between the American Presidential system and the British Parliamentary system.
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7th - 12th
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Texas v Johnson; The Supreme Court and First Amendment
This contains 4 documents: 1. A background reading to the landmark Supreme Court case Texas v Johnson with questions about the process and an introduction to problems with first amendment. 2. Answers 3. The decision to Texas v Johnson with questions 4. Answers
This is how I begin my mini unit on free speech, I have many resources to follow from here.
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Grades:
7th - 11th
History Mystery - Assassination of Lincoln
This is an investigation into the murder of Lincoln. Here is a video of me explaining how to do this lesson: https://youtu.be/PO8sakft904
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5th - 12th
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John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press
This print-ready lesson allows students to analyze the arguments made by Zenger's attorney Andrew Hamilton at his trial for libel. This foundational moment in Colonial American jurisprudence set an important precedent for American civil rights, especially freedom of the press and the ability of citizens to speak truth to power.This freebie represents the document/stimulus-based lessons I'm best known for.
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7th - 12th
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