In this lesson, students will compare and contrast textual evidence provided by primary and secondary sources. The second learning objective is for students to evaluate the influence and importance of the media's role in public opinion of Hiroshima.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Pottawatomie v. Earls and the 4th amendment. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes help visually display the differences between main ideas and supportive information in outline form. Main ideas or categories are assigned a power 1 rating. Details and examples are assigned power 2s, 3s, or 4s.

This lesson plan, The Power of Freedom, focuses on Dr. Martin Luther King’s most well-known and frequently taught classic works, like “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream.” Students read and discuss the themes in both works and connect to events in their lives today.

In this lesson, students will explore the images in the "Portrait Gallery of Sugar Work" and reflect on how these images connect to the "Sugar Changed the World" text.

In this lesson on Wizard of Lies, the teacher will model academic discussion in order to prepare students for their mid-unit assessment.

In this lesson plan, students will analyze and then present their understanding of the central idea of paragraphs 8-10 of the text "How Bernard Madoff Did It."

Speech writing is a rhetorical art and provides the content for these scaffolded lessons that support the increased cognitive rigor of literacy standards with presidential writings.

In this lesson and resource, students use primary sources to practice analysis of primary sources.

This lesson is designed to assist students through multiple sessions with identifying relevant propaganda techniques in literature, discussing persuasive elements found in print and non-print media and composing a persuasive essay. Lesson is appropriate for use with a provided list of novels to include Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

In this activity, students compare World War II propaganda posters from the United States, Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. Then students choose one of several creative or analytical writing assignments to demonstrate what they've learned.

In this unit, students will deeply investigate perspective and meaning in Letter from Birmingham Jail, examining other texts as well.

In this lesson, students will work with the Text Analysis Rubric to determine the qualities of a strong written response.

This resource includes a quiz which focuses on Reading Information standard 2. After reading the excerpt from Winston Churchill's speech, students will respond to open-ended questions.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun provides a compelling and honest look into one family's aspirations to move to another Chicago neighborhood and the thunderous crash of a reality that raises questions about for whom the "American Dream" is accessible.

In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison wrote about the experience of being ignored, bringing to light a powerful meditation on race and social structure. Ellison related this personal experience to a greater societal structure, using characters and imagery to do so. In this lesson plan, students will use similar tools to explore the theme of invisibility in the book, in their own lives, and in their communities. Note that the novel contains some challenging subject matter, as well as scenes that some may find offensive. Review the book yourself before embarking on the lesson plan so you can prepare appropriately.

In the TED Ed lesson focused on Ralph Waldo Emerson, students will explore the roots of Emerson's journey in transcendentalism and his philosophical influence on his time. Discussion questions and additional resources available in the sidebar.

Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help students to comprehend the main points of the reading and understand the organizational structure of a text.

In this lesson, students continue to read Chapter 1 of Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior and identify elements that shape the central idea and how to refine inquiry questions in order to narrow research topics.

The Committee of Public Safety's assumption of political power and rule between 1793 and 1794 marked what was arguably the most radical phase of the French Revolution. The Committee justified its excesses as necessary to protect against domestic and foreign counter-revolutionaries. In this lesson, students question the motives of the Committee through analyzing excerpts from the "Decree Against Profiteers" and "Law of Suspects."