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Middle school informational text dbqs $5-10
Civil Rights Leaders Biography Reading Comprehension Worksheet Bundle
This bundle provides biographies for several major civil rights leaders in many different areas (listed below). Includes: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, Mohandas Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson, Booker T. Washington, and Harriet Tubman. Each individual listing provides more details and preview pictures. Includes:*Susan B. Anthony*Cesar Chavez*Frederick Douglass*Mohandas Gandhi*Rosa Parks*Nelson Mandela*Helen Keller*M
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5th - 8th
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: reading questions, task cards, and test
This 45 page* novel study will assist students in comprehension and critical thinking while reading whole class, in a small group, or independently, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Reynolds and Kendi's brilliant partnership is a must read for students hoping to gain a clear and engaging understanding of how race has been viewed and used in American history.Teachers can assign 50 critical thinking and recall questions to be answered during reading to hol
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7th - 12th
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Periodic Table Webquest Mystery of the Missing Element NGSS Chemistry
Need a way to engage your middle school science students in an introduction to the periodic table? This engaging lesson set is web-based and includes chemistry resources to help students learn about the periodic table, chemical elements, non-fiction texts, and more. Students learn about the history of the periodic table through cross-curricular connections to social studies with DBQs, and language arts through the reading and writing of non-fiction texts. This resource supports NGSS Middle Schoo
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5th - 8th
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MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
In this bundle you will receive four current events about the recent Israeli- Hamas conflict. It starts from Oct 7, to the recent hostage release. Students will read DBQs and answer questions. Then students will answer short response questions using evidence from the text.
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6th - 8th
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Close Reading: Girl Power!-Women's Suffrage to Beyonce and "Independent Women"
The goal of this lesson is for students to be able to explain how views of women have changed across time by analyzing texts for author's craft. Perfect for the Reading or Language Arts teacher looking to include informational text or the Social Studies teacher looking to incorporate reading skills!
This Author's Craft tutorial begins with an analysis of two songs, "Survivor" and "Independent Women" from the sining group Destiny's Child led by Beyonce Knowles. Students listen to and make notes
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6th - 12th
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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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The DBQ Project: World War I Station Documents
As a teacher we all create lessons that we look upon and think, “Wow! I created that. It is amazing! My students are going to love it” Well, this lesson is definitely one of those lessons that I am extremely proud of. This lesson makes kids think, and they love it! It was born out of a desire to engage my students in the learning process and in a desire to integrated Social Studies and Reading Skills. It is flexible and allows the classroom teacher to select materials that work best with
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5th - 10th
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SS8H8 Big Bundle: WWI, Great Depression, FDR, Talmadge, New Deal~ Print & Go
With this package of activities, worksheets and assignments your students will thoroughly understand how Georgia participated in the Great Depression, New Deal and WWI. There is so much to do with this bundle. Students will:read an informational passage about Roosevelt's connection to Georgia and take a quizparticipate in Gallery Walks about the Great Depression in Georgia and its contribution to WWIComplete a spiral review of the SS8H8 standard through a worksheetcomplete a worksheet on the arg
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8th
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US History Document-Based Questions
This Document-Based Questions (DBQS) set provides students with an opportunity to analyze historical documents and synthesize information to answer questions related to specific topics. In this case, the DBQs focus on three key historical themes: the reaction to slavery, the impact of the railroad system, and the Industrial Revolution (with a focus on inventions and child labor, and the War of 1812). Students will use both the provided documents and their broader knowledge of social studies to
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5th - 8th
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British Imperialism in Africa
This is a CCLS aligned lesson the teaches students the causes and effects of British imperialism in Africa. This lesson includes informational text, chart analysis, political cartoon analysis, DBQ's and critical thinking writing activities.
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8th - 12th
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American Revolution: The Stamp Act Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need for teaching the Stamp Act. 6 assignments including informational readings on the Act's passing, and DBQ's on the colonial reaction and overturning of the Act. Check out the links below for individual assignment explanations. Great for supplements, extra credit or sub plans! MS Word docs for easy editing.
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7th - 12th
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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Main Idea Tutorial: Reading is Power! The Slave Codes, and Frederick Douglass
This tutorial is perfect for Language Arts or Reading teachers to teach main idea through content area informational text or for Social Studies teachers to reinforce important content area literacy strategies!
Students learn how reading can make an individual powerful by applying close, analytical reading skill as they watch a video clip of the movie Nightjohn, about a former slave who returns to bondage---to teach others how to read and write, read the Slave Codes, laws against teaching slav
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6th - 12th
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The Shot Heard 'Round the World. What Really Happened?
This is a Document Based Question (DBQ) in which students study first person accounts of the event and try to determine what happened based on those Primary Sources.
Multiple loyalist/British and patriot/colonist sources are provided, along with a sample student essay.
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5th - 8th
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Washington State Immigration 1800s
Does Immigration Help or hurt a country? The United States began to acquire the rights to land in the Pacific Northwest through treaties with the Natives. These treaties opened up the land to new settlers who hoped to improve their lives. People from Asia and Europe flocked to the Pacific Northwest, as new resources, jobs, and infrastructure were needed.
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6th - 8th
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World War I: Treaty of Versailles DBQ plus skill building
This packet includes an original Document Based Question set regarding American opinions on the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. An essay prompt is included, as well as a scoring rubric. The packet also includes a handout which can be used as the springboard for a lesson on DBQ essay writing skills, as well as a second handout which students can used for peer-editing after the completion of their essays.
I have found this to be a very important topic for helping students develop
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7th - 11th
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Grades6-8 Common Core ELA Rubrics
These expertly designed rubrics not only meet the performance bands to identify progress toward mastery of the Common Core Standards; they also show vertical alignment to the previous and next year standards. This assists identifying and differentiating instruction for our struggling and advanced student.
Each grade level features rubrics for:
Opinion-Argument
Informative
Narrative
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Middle School Document Based Question
The folder has pdf and doc files so that you can u
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6th - 8th
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Analyzing Primary Source Documents
Make primary source documents manageable for upper elementary students with this collection of graphic organizers based on known strategies. Through the use of organizers designed to break apart independent sources, students will be able to complete a comparison chart on which they will analyze the purpose of the sources as well as the intended audience. In addition, by using the summary organizer, students will be able to take any non-fiction text and write a strong summary. Students will be ab
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3rd - 6th
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US History: Structured Academic Controversy: Manifest Destiny Distance Learning
This lesson is the summative assessment for my Westward Expansion Unit.BellWork: What were the positive and negative effects of manifest destiny?Directions: During today’s class you will work to decide if it was a good idea for Americans to expand westward. Your goal for today is to examine the evidence, create a claim, present, and defend that claim to one of your peers.Procedure:Independently, read the documentation provided to you. Find five pieces of evidence from the text which support your
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7th - 11th
Also included in: US History Westward Expansion Unit BUNDLE
MS Common Core Guided Reading Questions for Reading, Language, and Writing
The provided middle school guided reading stems provide Common Core level questions or statements that teachers can use to help students pause and reflect as they read complex literary and informational texts. The questions are rigorous and require students to use evaluation and analysis-level skills as they read. The question stems reflect the wording and rigor from numerous state test preparation materials and other teacher-created stems. Teachers can use these Common Core guided reading st
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6th - 8th
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US Founding Documents Lesson Bundle
This bundle includes lessons to teach the five major documents that shaped American history: The Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, The Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Cover the content while enhancing students' abilities to interpret primary sources and think critically. Each lesson offers scaffolding to empower students to navigate each original document without resorting to secondary interpretations.
Bundle includes the following lessons:
1. Mayflo
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6th - 12th
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Genocide Stations Activity
Using information from the website WorldWithoutGenocide.org, this activity asks students to compare and contrast the Armenian, Rwandan, and Darfur Genocides with the Holocaust. It should be used as an extension activity after already covering the Holocaust.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Last Best West - Analyze the Ads
Students assess whether or not the ads used by the Ministry of the Interior at the turn of the 19th century measure up to the accuracy and truth standards as set out by the Canadian Standards for Truth in Advertising.
PROCEDURE: Students will examine several advertising posters and copy, and compare these with several primary and secondary sources [text/images] from the actual experience of settlers who immigrated to the Canadian West. Students then assess the advertisements against the standa
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Pre-Assessment for Using Historical Sources
This pre-assessment allows the teacher to determine how familiar her students are with working with historical source material.
The assessment is designed to be used with two sources on the same topic, in order to gauge how well students understand historical perspective.
Following the assessment is a simple rubric to allow teachers to group students by readiness level.
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7th - 12th
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