Students will read a passage and write to answer questions based on the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage, write to answer questions about the passage, and write to justify an response to an opinion question. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students examine the roles of women in the Revolutionary War era. Working in groups, students work make predictions about the contributions of a specific female patriot. The lesson provides a graphic organizer, cooperative grouping, and a think-aloud to support English language learners. Then students write a paragraph to demonstrate their new knowledge.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students will identify clues to and ask questions about Rosa Park’s story from a sculpture and a primary source photograph. Students will then read more about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery County Bus Boycott. Then students will draw pictures and create skits to demonstrate their learning.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson plan, students analyze visual and textual primary sources to determine the extent to which African-Americans freed themselves versus the extent to which Abraham Lincoln ended slavery. The site includes links to primary source documents (including one from North Carolina), analysis worksheets for each document, and graphic organizers to support the lesson. The lesson includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions.

In 1899 and 1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued what became known as the Open Door Notes to foreign powers involved in China. Secretary Hay called on those powers to respect the rights of each other, to agree to an open market and equal trading opportunities for merchants of all nationalities, and to respect the territorial and administrative integrity of China.

This lesson was designed to help students gain social studies/history content knowledge by using textual evidence to answer text-dependent questions.

In response to Harriet Tubman’s request for a letter of commendation, Fredrick Douglas wrote a testimony of her character, hard work, and sacrifices for the sake of freedom from bondage while marking the differences in their leadership styles for the common cause. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Students will learn to order their thoughts into sequential writing. The students will map a trail around the school and then follow some of Jefferson's instructions for wrtiing detialed reports. Each student then writes a description of an animal after reading Meriwether Lewis's report of the black woodpecker, another "new" creature.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea, characterization, and supporting details.

In this activity students read short excerpts of documents that show how the expectations of women, African Americans, and working white men were raised by the rhetoric of liberty during the American Revolution. Students write petitions to the Continental Congress from one of the three group's perspectives, explaining how their group responded to the Revolution and outlining how their group should be treated under the new Constitution. This activity includes multiple learning supports that can help ESL/ELL students, special education students, or low readers.

This lesson includes an Internet exploration that focuses on the roles of the eye and brain in the perception of color. It includes an introduction to the anatomy of the eye, including the functions of rods and cones. It is recommended that students complete the first 2 activities (Light 1 and Light 2) prior to this activity.

From the Standford University Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, this lesson, Love and Faith, introduces students to the music and poetry of the modern African American Freedom Struggle and challenges them to create their own creative works.

Students will explore the personalities of the Revolutionary War's Patriots and Loyalists by participating in a character role play. The lesson will culminate with students researching and writing a character sketch of a key Revolutionary figure of their choice and participating in a Colonial Town Hall & Debate.

In this lesson and resource, students use charts and graphs to determine the main idea in a visual literacy exercise.

This lesson from the New York Times is a collection of activties and lessons to help students make accurate inferences in their own reading.

A series of worksheets with answer keys to help students of differing levels make predictions from selcted texts.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea, characterization and inferences.

Students compare and contrast two Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) by evaluating case studies. Then they learn how the MPA classification system works in the United States and apply that system to the MPA case studies.