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8th grade close reading dbq microsofts
Absolutism, Enlightenment, French and American Revolutions, & Napoleon Bundle
This unit includes 6 lessons covering: Magna Carta (Constitutional Monarchies)Absolute MonarchiesEnlightenment Causes and PhilosophersEnlightenment Effect on American and French RevolutionsThe French RevolutionNapoleonThis unit is student-lead with only 2 of the 6 lessons requiring teacher instruction. The rest are independent work. This unit can be completed in anywhere from 7 to 11 days depending on the length of your class periods and if you choose to do all optional activities. Please see th
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8th - 11th
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Creating a Climate Change Model
This assignment asks students to read, highlight and annotate passages about the greenhouse effect, the albedo effect, and human impact on the climate. As they read, students add information to their model. Once their draft model is completed, they will transfer it to a poster board. NGSS HS-LS2-7.Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.HS-ESS3-5. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models
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8th - 12th
Ancient Egypt Stations
This product contains 8 "articles" that comprise the Ancient Egypt Case Study. Each article has a particular topic related to the Nile River Valley. Specifically, this document includes Geography, Economy, Seasons of the Nile, Social Order, Government, Religion, and Achievements of Ancient Egypt, with an additional article on the pyramids for fun! Each article uses images, bold text, and vocabulary to enrich the reader's engagement with the document. Each article has a corresponding Student Que
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5th - 8th
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US History: The Annexation of Hawaii
EDITABLE reading comprehension packet on the political and economic machinations that led to the US acquisition of the islands of Hawaii. Packet includes key information, pictures for visual learners, opinion-based discussion starters and rigorous reading comprehension questions on the topic.
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7th - 12th
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Women of the American Revolution, 1763-1783: Teaching Bundle
This resource bundle includes the following items: *Revolutionary Women: Power Point Lesson*Revolutionary Women: Reading Assignment and Worksheet*Revolutionary Women: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs Power Point LessonThis 13-slide PowerPoint presentation covers the Revolutionary Era between 1763 and 1783. The Pre-Revolutionary Era lasted from 1763 through 1776 and the Revolutionary War lasted from 1776 to 1783. It is an ideal lesson for the Revolutionary War period or as a stand-alone resource
Grades:
8th - 11th
Vehicular Vengeance! - Crime / Mystery Synthesis
This student centered assignment draws upon many of the skills and standards required in an English or language arts course. Students must close-read texts, make annotations, synthesize, present arguments, and use effective listening and speaking skills in a group setting. The set-up is straightforward. Students are placed in groups (typically 4-5 students per). Each group is given the included packet of clues that must be scrutinized in order to present a solution. The clues reveal little on t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Current Events: Protest on American Campuses Spring 2024 Part II
Students will read five document based questions on protest on American Campuses and answer a short response question: Should college students be arrested for expressing their First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech?
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: TikTok Ban Part II Spring 2024
Students will read five documents about the potential TikTok ban in the United States. Students will then answer the following using two pieces of evidence: Should the United States force ByteDance to sell TikTok to another company? Why or why not?
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: Amelia Earhart's Plane Found 2024
Students will read five Document Based Questions about how a deep sea company has believed to have found Amelia Earhart's plane. Students will then write an answer to a short response question using two pieces of evidence in the text.
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6th - 8th
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Argument, Claim, & Evidence Practice - Texting and Driving, Dangerous or Not?
Students can practice reading and annotating conflicting articles on the topic Texting and Driving. There are three articles, three infographs, a video, and an audio clip, to give the students practice with multimedia presentations on the same topic. There are standards-based questions throughout the presentation that can be answered individually or in a whole group setting. This presentation aligns with Florida standards LAFS.8.RI.3.7, RI.3.8 and RI.3.9.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Current Events: School bans mirrors in school bathrooms
Students will read Document Based Questions on why a school in North Carolina has removed bathrooms mirrors. Students will then answer 5 questions and a short response question using evidence from the text.
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: Mayor Eric Adams and Solitary Confinement 2024
Students will read DBQs about NYC Mayor Eric Adams and why he vetoed the Solitary Confinement Bill and "The How Many Stops" Bill. Students will answer the short response question: Do you agree or disagree with Mayor Adams on vetoing (rejecting) the solitary confinement and the How Many Stops Act?
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: Israel- Hamas Conflict Part III
Students will read about the Israeli- Hamas Conflict (In the previous two current events I named it the Israeli-Palestine Conflict but since Israel and Hamas are fighting and the news outlets have changed it to Israel and Hamas War, I decided to change it) Students will read 5 document based questions and then they will answer a short response question.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
Current Events: COP28: Climate Change Summit
Students will read documents on the recent climate summer that just ended in December in Dubai
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: Dress Code Violation or Hair Discrimination?
Students will read five DBQ about Darryl George and the Crown Act and answer 5 questions. Students will then using evidence from the text to answer the short response question: Why is the CROWN Act important to Black people?
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: 2023 Israeli and Palestinian Conflict Part II
Students will read five document based questions about the current Israeli- Palestinian Conflict and answer questions. Students will then answer the short response question Explain the impact (effect) of the war on Israel, Palestine and/ or America using two pieces of evidence from the text.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
DBQ - Three Reads Protocol Template
This document is to be used when having students break down a text or analyze an image for the purposes of a Document Based Question. They should be reading the same text or analyzing the same image three separate times. This allows students to have a specific focus for each time they read, comprehension, analysis, and making connections. It can be formatted to fit whatever type of document you want students to work with, text or an image. There is also an "academic dictionary" section for s
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6th - 12th
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Great Awakening Primary Source Analysis & Activity
While teaching through the great awakening periods with my US History summer school class, I thought it would be fun to ask students not only to read sermons from the 5 different Great Awakening periods, but to write their own sermon using the values of those authors. Students had to address the problems of our society today but using the voice and sensibilities of these former great preachers and community leaders. I found sermons from the First, Second and Third Great Awakenings as well as ser
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8th - 11th
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Current Events: Israel- Hamas War Part IV (Four)
Students will read 5 DBQ on the Israel- Hamas War and then answer a short response question
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
Germany Increases Power after Unification (1871)
This is a CCLS aligned lesson that reviews the Unification of Germany and teaches students how Germany increased it power after 1871 under the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. This lesson includes informational texts, guided reading questions, vocabulary builders, reading strategies, political cartoon analysis, a graphic organizer activity, DBQs and higher-order critical thinking questions with writing prompts.
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7th - 12th
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Current Events: Word of the Year
Students will read 5 documents about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s Word of the Year and they will answer a short response
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6th - 8th
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 18/25 - Fascism & World War II - 10th Grade
Twenty-one short-answer questions, worth 24 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the rise of fascism in Germany, World War II, the Holocaust and genocide. 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 Units 10-11 (Out of 20 total 10th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history.Unit 10 (The Rise of Fascism)Unit 11 (World War II)Man
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Civil Rights Speech Analysis (ELA-History Common Core Aligned)
Analysis of three key Civil Rights era speeches: 1) Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech, 2) John Lewis' "The Militant" speech, and 3) Stokely Carmichael's "What We Want" speech. Students read the speech in class, analyze for ELA and History standards, and then write a paragraph analysis. Once all speeches are read, there is a comparison of the three speeches and their effects on the Civil Rights movement and finally a structured essay guideline assignment.
ELA-History Common Core
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Current Events: Israeli- Palestinian Conflict 2023
Students will read 5 DBQs on the recent Israeli- Palestinian conflict and answer a short response question using the DBQs
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
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