Students will explore, the development of the textile industry in Great Britain, focusing on the invention of various machines. They will understand the link between rapid growth in both the textile industry and in coal mining in Great Britain to the development of social ills and the political push to alleviate some of the atrocious conditions under which people worked. Lastly, students will connect the process of industrialization to the expansion of male suffrage through the various reform bills of the 1800s in Great Britain.

This news brief from February 2013 provides the evolutionary explanation for why some vaccines provide lifelong protection with one or a few doses, but the flu requires a new shot every year. This article includes a set of discussion and extension questions for use in class. It also includes hints about related lessons that might be used in conjunction with this one.

In this Module 3, Unit 1: Lesson 1, student will read and analyze the first chapter of Animals in Translation, focusing on how the author reveals the central idea through textual details.

In this detailed, extensive, Common Core aligned teacher's guide to Into the Wild by John Krakauer, the curriculum framework is organized around an extended text, shorter texts and guiding questions. Teachers can choose from several charts of materials and activities to build a solid, challenging unit of study utilizing film, research, and complex but high interest text.

In this lesson on the informational text Sugar Changed the World, students will use the Sugar Mapping Tool to begin assessing central ideas.

Students begin by evaluating the universal theme of betrayal from multiple perspectives. After reading time period scenarios as well as reflecting on personal experiences, students use critical thinking skills to explore and identify interventions for each betrayal scenario, including personal examples. Students then research Roman history as they write down thier own critical perspective of a scenario depicting plausible scenes from Roman times. As the culminating project and assessment, students will create comic strips with the Interactive Comic Creator

In the 1800s Irish immigrants to the United States faced intense discrimination. The treatment of the Irish raises the historical question of whether the Irish were considered "white" in the 19th century. In this lesson, students examine political cartoons, a Know-Nothing party speech, and a historian's account to consider how racial categories may be ambiguous and change over time.

This lesson provides students with an opportunity to study and analyze the innovative legislative efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in the social and economic context of the 1960s.

In this lesson, students will gain historical reasoning skills by studying primary sources and
comparing them to secondary sources. They will become more familiar with the conditions in Japanese American concentration camps through the personal writings of Stanley Hayami, a high school student who was incarcerated in the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.

In this lesson, students learn about various aspects of Japanese Internment through a rotating stations activity where they examine various artifacts related to the period. The lesson culminates with students assuming the role of a Supreme Court Justice and deciding the constitutionality of Japanese internment.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide, students will encounter discussion questions designed to illuminate the moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, written by W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.

In 1950, North Korean forces, armed mainly with Soviet weapons, invaded South Korea in an effort to reunite the peninsula under communist rule. This lesson will introduce students to the conflict by having them read the most important administration documents related to it.

This resource includes a handout and activities that will help students understand the advances of Norbert Rillieux, an African American inventor who harnessed thermodynamics principles to invent the multiple-effect evaporator. It asks students to read articles followed by reading comprehension questions, answer questions about thermodynamics and latent heat, and explore engineering practices.

Students will read a passage and write answers to questions about the passage. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This simple, straightforward lesson helps English language learners and others practice context clues, close reading, questioning and discussion of text.

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

This lesson introduces students to the blues, one of the most distinctive and influential elements of African-American musical tradition. Students take a virtual tour of Memphis, TN and explore the history of the blues in the work of W.C. Handy and a variety of country blues singers whose music preserves the folk origins of this unique American art form. The lesson concludes with students composing their own blues lyrics.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Lee v. Weisman and the 1st amendment. Students then answer analysis questions about the case.

This lesson will focus on the chief objections of the Anti-federalists, especially The Federal Farmer (Richard Henry Lee), Centinel, and Brutus, regarding the extended republic. Students will become familiar with the larger issues surrounding this debate, including the nature of the American Union, the difficulties of uniting such a vast territory with a diverse multitude of regional interests, and the challenges of maintaining a free republic as the American people moved toward becoming a nation rather than a mere confederation of individual states.

How did Abraham Lincoln understand the relationship between principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?