Students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students learn about reoccurring historical and geographical themes by working together in groups to identify these themes through interpreting historical passages.

In this lesson, students read a current science article, write a summary of it, edit it, and type it into a word processing program.

This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

This lesson focuses on the concept of the afterlife and the importance of pleasing the gods and goddesses, the significance of tombs and tomb building, and the burial customs and traditions of the ancient Egyptians. After learning about all of these concepts, students will design a tomb, create a model of it, and complete a short written assignment explaining the design and contents of the tomb.

This lesson focuses on the importance of geographic features and the abundance of natural resources that helped ancient Egypt become the world's first superpower. Students will learn about the geography and resources available to the ancient Egyptians and create a multimedia tour that demonstrates this learning to others.

In this lesson, students will apply knowledge of persuasive techniques, primary sources, and historical background study of the time period to defend or convict Galileo at the Inquisition. Students will become familiar with the Trial of Galileo Galilei and will achieve mastery understanding of who Galileo was, and how his life and trial impacted the Enlightenment.

This article examines the the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan as causes of the Cold War. It includes tips for students to remember arguments and facts about these plans. At the end of the article, there are reflection questions and a quiz for students to assess their knowledge.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide to Mitch Albom's biography and memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, students will explore the story of Mitch Albom as he reunites with his former professor, Morrie Schwartz. Morrie's illness and death gives Mitch a perspective that directly changes his life. Discussion guide and author background included.

The corrupting influence of slavery on marriage and the family is a predominant theme in Solomon Northup's narrative Twelve Years a Slave. In this lesson, students are asked to identify and analyze narrative passages that provide evidence for how slavery undermined and perverted these social institutions. Northup collaborated with a white ghostwriter, David Wilson. Students will read the preface and identify and analyze statements Wilson makes to prove the narrative is true.

In 1691, a group of girls from Salem, Massachusetts accused an Indian slave named Tituba of witchcraft, igniting a hunt for witches that left 19 men and women hanged, one man pressed to death, and over 150 more people in prison awaiting a trial. In this lesson, students will explore the characteristics of the Puritan community in Salem, learn about the Salem Witchcraft Trials, and try to understand how and why this event occurred.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing Imperialism. Multiple documents are available for analysis of policies among competing nations that led to Colonialism, Social Darwinism, Racism, Nationalism and Paternalism.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing the Industrial Revolution. Multiple documents are available for analysis of methods and goals of industrialization and the impact on human conditions.

In this lesson, stduents will write a response analyzing the relationship between Woolf's text, A Room of One's Own, and the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This resource provides a lesson that should accompany a reading of Einstein's four short works by Albert Einstein. Included is a speech, letter, and an essay. Students will read an analyze. Afterwards, students will be responsible for completing an essay.

Analyzing textbooks from a historiographical stance allows students to see that history is more about interpretation, perspective, and bias than about rote memorization. By looking at how textbooks from different eras describe a certain event, such as the Mexican-American War, students learn about the choices that textbook authors make. For example, do the textbooks depict the U.S. as the aggressor, as an unwilling participant forced into a conflict by enemy antagonism, or something in between?

In this lesson, students will spend approximately 3 days completing 5 activities, learning to use questions to guide their approach to reading and analyzing text.

In this lesson, students critically examine the concept of representative democracy and its importance to American government. Students learn the difference between descriptive and agency representation as well as analyze the current demographic trends of the North Carolina General Assembly and United States Congress.