Students will research and present to the class a hero of the Mexican movement for independence (i.e. Hidalgo, Morelos, Iturbide).

This list of games for Spanish class includes several games that can be modified depending on the vocabulary unit you are teaching. Games encourage listening comprehension, speaking practice, or both.

Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.

This map and article detail the routes of the five southeastern tribes that were forced to leave their homelands in the Southeast and live in Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

This lesson examines the issue of child labor during the Industrial Revolution in terms of working conditions, safety, and health.

This lesson examines public commentary on a law that sought to reduce the cost of looking after poor people by putting them in workhouses in exchange for food and clothing.

State guidelines address various antebellum (pre-Civil War) reform movement - Abolition, Education, Women's Rights

This article from 1914 covers the Paris Opera House perfromance of dancers from the Imperial Theatres of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It contains quotes from Serge Diaghileff.

In this collaborative activity, student groups are given a packet of primary source documents that relate to a specific country's role in WWI. Students are tasked with identifying their assigned country by examining the documents.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of consumerism in the 1920s and recognize the connections between commodities and culture in the American past and present.

This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. Additional resources include a background essay and discussion questions.

Students will research and debate the presidential terms of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Each day, students will review a video clip from www.history.com about a American cultural event/development during the 1920s.  They will complete questions 1-5 on the graphic organizer based on information from the video.  Students will then consider the impact of the event on American culture today to answer Questions 6 & 7.

This unit walks students through a variety of activities revolving around George Orwell's book '1984'.

This resource, based on George Orwell's book, 1984, allows students to review elements from the novel. Answer key provided.

In this Penguin Classics guide to George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions.

This lesson plan, centered around 1984 but adaptable to any piece of dystopian literature, asks students to make connections between the horrible futures predicted in the text and the reality of the world around them.

In this lesson, students will analyze Orwell’s carefully chosen words, details, repetitions, and characterizations in these first few pages, students can construct a strong understanding of some of the key features of this society that will give them a solid framework for comprehending the rest of the novel.

In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This article reflects on the events of the 1986 revolution in the Philippines that ultimately led to the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos.