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U.S. History Common Core W.11-12.1b resources
United States Constitution Bundle: Scavenger Hunt, Articles, Convention Notes...
This bundle contains all of Mister Harms' resources on the United States Constitution. By choosing the bundle you are saving 20%! You also get the convenience of having all of these high-quality resources for your American History, Civics, and/or Government classes in one place! Scroll up to see the resources within this bundle. Enjoy!Thank You!Thanks so much for stopping by! It's great to meet you! I hope this resource adds value to your classroom. If you have time, I'd love for you to leave
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Essay Writing Workbook: History/Social Studies *Editable*
Do your students need support with essay writing? I made this essay writing guide to support history and other social studies students through the writing process to create a research-based expository or argumentative essay. This essay writing booklet can be used regardless of whether you are teaching face-to-face, virtually, or in a blended/hybrid model as it is available as a Google Doc. This product includes:Sample color-coded thesesThesis writing structureGraphic organizersCategorized trans
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9th - 12th
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AP US History Period 1 Skill-Building & Activity Workbook!
This is a comprehensive workbook for Period 1 of AP US History. This APUSH workbook has one purpose- to make students successful and prepare them for the AP exam. Students learn to write DBQs effectively, master the SAQ, build historical thinking skills, clear up misconceptions, and learn where many students make mistakes. This 13-page workbook focuses on the most important terms and themes of period one, so the complexity of the content becomes more clear and easier to retain.The workbook gives
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP US History Skill Building Activities Workbooks Bundle: Periods 1-5
Rhetorical Analysis Essay - I Have a Dream - Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Teaching rhetorical analysis essays doesn't have to be tricky. This no-prep rhetorical analysis unit for Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is engaging and easy to use. This rhetorical analysis unit teaches students how to analyze a speech; identify ethos, logos, and pathos; and write a rhetorical analysis essay. Students are supported through the rhetorical analysis essay with prewriting activities and detailed graphic organizers. Both a printable PDF and digital Google Slides version
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8th - 11th
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Interdisciplinary Project Based Learning Unit Native American Heritage & Culture
This resource pulls together Native American mythology, primary source historical texts, and the habitat degradation of an endangered species in this week-long, interdisciplinary, project-based learning unit based on real-life current events. Use as a Native American Heritage month activity or as part of a wider mythology unit.Students explore a range of sources in a structured way (like a digital breakout activity, where they must 'unlock' each stage of their investigation). They evaluate those
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9th - 12th
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Gettysburg Address Rhetorical Analysis Essay - Abraham Lincoln Speech Analysis
Teaching rhetorical analysis with speeches doesn't have to be tricky. This no-prep rhetorical analysis unit for Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is engaging and easy to use. This Gettysburg Address rhetorical analysis unit teaches students how to analyze a speech; identify ethos, logos, and pathos; and write a rhetorical analysis essay. Students are supported through the rhetorical analysis essay with prewriting activities and detailed graphic organizers. Both a printable PDF and digital Goo
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8th - 11th
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Rhetorical Analysis - Assassination of Martin Luther King- Robert Kennedy Speech
Teaching rhetorical analysis doesn't have to be tricky. This no-prep rhetorical analysis unit for Robert Kennedy's Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is engaging and easy to use. This rhetorical analysis unit teaches students how to analyze a speech; identify ethos, logos, and pathos; and write a rhetorical analysis essay. Students are supported through the rhetorical analysis essay with prewriting activities and detailed graphic organizers. Both a printable PDF and digital
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8th - 11th
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from Paine's The Crisis Number 1, Close Reading
Using a Close Reading format, Thomas Paine's words are studied as "First Impressions" and then with more deliberative questions and analysis. The study unit includes the following:
- Teacher Directions and Suggestions, with notes.
- Two board pages to introduce the lesson.
- "First Impressions" graphic organizer.
- "Focus Questions, with answer key.
- Four Analysis questions with room for student responses.
- An Essential Question with room for student response.
- A glossary with a spell
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11th - 12th
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Making Transcendentalism Fun A 7- Day Unit
This full seven day unit will provide your students with all they need to know and understand about the Transcendental movement in literature as well as how they can still see the ideas of Transcendentalism in modern pop culture. This Unit includes:7 days of lesson plans that cover an introduction to Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and Walt WhitmanReady to go PowerPoint Lesson for each day of the unitAll the worksheets you will need to support the go
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9th - 12th
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54th Mass, movie Glory, article historical inaccuracies, test, graphic organizer
Lesson centers around watching movie, Glory. 3 page article provides background information about the real 54th regiment, role in Civil War and real men who served. Article also includes background of Hollywood characters & their roles, historical inaccuracies in movie. Lesson has an one page graphic organizer for students to complete while watching the movie, and reflective/ discussion questions. Finally, lesson includes assessment that has five short answer/essay responses based on mo
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8th - 11th
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Washington DC Field Trip Journal Notebook Differentiated
This Washington D.C. Notebook is perfect for children and students of all ages who would like to document, scrapbook, draw, write and create memories of their field trip or vacation. Writing is perfect for synthesizing the learning which takes place through field trips and hands on learning experiences. By having peers edit each other's entries you can integrate language arts, grammar and mechanics. Writing based on educational museums and experiences with and without prompted essay topics furth
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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K-2-ETS1-2
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, 1-ESS1-1
, MS-ETS1-2
, 5-ESS3-1
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Harriet Tubman on the $20: Practice with Argument
2020 was the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote. Leading up to the centennial, Americans anticipated the twenty-dollar bill's design revision as a landmark achievement celebrating women’s progress. During the Obama administration, focus groups proposed several replacements for controversial president Andrew Jackson, including former first lady and human rights activist Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights figure Rosa Parks, and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherok
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9th - 12th
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Race & Racism in America - How did We Get Here? (Mini-Curriculum)
"How did We Get Here" is a mini-curriculum devoted to investigating the roots of institutionalized racism in the modern United States. "The Enduring Catastrophe of Reconstruction" is the series' 1800-word first installment, which begins with the Civil War's end in 1865. What were the "Civil War Amendments" and "Radical Reconstruction?" When did the last Union Army troops withdraw from the South? Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? What was the Jim Crow Era? This 17-page learning packet seeks to p
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower Worksheet
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower by the History Channel is an EXCELLENT resource for teaching Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. This movie guide provides 15 open questions that allow students to take notes for the purpose of writing an essay.The answer key contains detailed notes for each question, though the teacher may decide to add more of their owns notes as they watch the documentary with their students. In addition, this resource includes a rubric for a five
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation BUNDLE!
AP US History Women's Roles DBQ PRACTICE SHEET | Period 4 | Antebellum Era
A quick and easy way for students to practice analyzing documents to learn how to improve their writing on the DBQ! These are teacher and student-friendly designed for one purpose- to help break down the complicated requirements for the DBQ rubric so students can master it! These can be completed in class or as homework and should take students between 25-45 minutes but can be extended to a longer lesson if the teacher desires students to grade and pair share one another's writing. Learning to w
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: How to Write the DBQ AP US History: 13 APUSH Practice DBQs Worksheets!
Inherit the Wind Test Assessment with Detailed Answer Key
The verdict is in! This comprehensive Inherit the Wind test is indispensable as a gauge for assessment. Using a variety of tools for appraisal--true/false, short answer, and quote interpretations--this test provides a thorough evaluation of student understanding of this popular play. A detailed answer key is included.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"Narrative of Frederick Douglass": Worksheet (or Test) and Detailed Answer Key
Walk in the footsteps of one of America's greatest abolitionists through this review sheet. Readers will have a chance to examine the "Autobiography of Frederick Douglass" as they answer questions that relate to his experiences as a slave. A detailed answer key is included.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP History LEQ Comparison Blueprints (Standard and Differentiated)
How do you build a thesis to prove similarities and differences in History? How do you organize decades' worth of historical evidence in an easily readable way? How do you produce a Long Essay Question (LEQ) that hits all six points on the AP History rubric in less than 40 minutes? At Mano Koa Enterprises, we say "No Pilikia" (Hawaiian for problem). This product contains a collection of documents designed to give students and teachers alike multiple strategies for answering Long Essay Questions
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9th - 12th
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Inherit the Wind: Mini Research Homework on Actual Trial with Attached Rubric
The verdict is in! This assignment will help students to gain an accurate historical perspective and context as they prepare to study the Scopes Monkey Trial or read Inherit the Wind. This mini, interdisciplinary research project will elicit integral discussion material about this famous event. A condensed rubric is included.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Using 3rd Party Examples and Anecdotes in Writing
This lesson features:1. One informational reading about the life and success of Jeff Bezos (Lexile level 1010-1200)2. One vocabulary list with nine words3. One pretest4. One class activity5. One independent writing activityThis lesson was written to teach students that were preparing for STAAR and TSI assessments, but it can be used to teach any student to write using real life third-party examples.Reading snippet sourced from CNBC and written by Taylor Locke. All other elements of this lesson a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Alexander Hamilton Reading Comprehension
Who was Alexander Hamilton?Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was born on January 11, 1755 or 57 in Nevis, West Indies.Hamilton’s footprints in the history of the United States are extensive and awe-inducing. He wrote 51 of the 85 Federalist Papers and was one of the 39 men to sign the United States Constitution in 1787. He laid the foundations for the Coast Guard, developed our currency system, founded
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9th - 12th
AP History LEQ Causation Blueprints (Standard and Differentiated)
How do you visualize historical cause and effect? How do you organize decades' worth of historical evidence in an easily readable way? How do you produce a Long Essay Question (LEQ) that hits all six points on the AP History rubric in less than 35 minutes? At Mano Koa Enterprises, we say "A'ole Pilikia" (Hawaiian for "No problem"). This product contains a collection of documents designed to give students and teachers alike multiple strategies for answering Long Essay Questions (LEQs) on the Adva
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9th - 12th
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William Bradford Writing
These rubrics guide students through clear expectations for a five paragraph essay where they discuss William Bradford's famous quote:"All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be overcome with answerable courages."Students are graded on the following criteria:FormattingThesis StatementIntroductory ParagraphTopic SentencesBody ParagraphsConclusion ParagraphWorks CitedGrammar & MechanicsThe students are asked to use quotations and paraphrases as evidenti
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation BUNDLE!
McCarthyism: Exploring Ethical and Unethical Politics
What kind of politic is "dirty"? Who distinguishes between political right and wrong? this activity requires students to draw an ethical line in a case study of political ethics.
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9th - 12th
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