This cross-curricular resource contains a primary source and a secondary source document on wealth and trade unions. Accompanying the readings are text-dependent questions, an academic vocabulary list, a writing prompt and sample student responses.

Students will complete close textual reading questions aligned with Common Core shifts for literacy. Scroll to "ELA 11-12 Declaration of Independence" to access download.

This prereading activity has students explore aspects of the Roaring Twenties to build foundations and make predictions before reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Was the Treaty of Versailles, which formally concluded World War I, a legitimate attempt by the victorious powers to prevent further conflict, or did it place an unfair burden on Germany? This lesson helps students respond to the question in an informed manner. Activities involve primary sources, maps, and other supporting documents related to the peace process and its reception by the German public and German politicians.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut and the right to privacy. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

In August 1964, a small military engagement off the coast of North Vietnam helped escalate the involvement of the United States in Vietnam; the Vietnam War would become the longest military engagement in American history prior to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

This interactive feature from PBS allows students to navigate the variables of physical geography and how these simple elements have shaped the course of global history. For instance, natural impediments such as mountain ranges or bodies of water created isolated civilizations. He argued that continents which were easily traversible, such as Europe encouraged trade among different people and stimulated development.

In this lesson, students reflect on their use of language in-school versus out-of-school. They create entries for a pop culture dictionary and assemble them as a class.

The events described in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” span about forty years of U.S. history. The lyrics include references to people, places and events from four decades of world occurrences. In this lesson, students research and categorize items from the song as well as illustrate their historical relevance. Students use an online chart to display their research. In addition, students make personal connections by working on a self- or teacher-selected lyrical project.

This study of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau is designed to give students an understanding of the ideas of these four philosophers and is also an opportunity for them to reflect on humanity's need for order and efforts to create stability within the social community. In the first part of the unit, activities focus student awareness on the nature of government itself and then progress to close reading and writing centered on the specifics of each philosopher's views. Large-group and small-group discussion as well as textual evidence are emphasized throughout. In the second part of the unit, students are asked to engage in creative writing that has research as its foundation. Collaboration, role-playing, and a panel discussion
are fundamental parts of the culminating activity. Options for further writing activities and assessments close the unit.

In this lesson, students will examine the opening paragraph of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and then craft their own introductory paragraph for their narratives.

A teacher's guide to Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Includes common core aligned pre-reading promts, discussion questions, post-reading promts and writing activities.

In this lesson students will explore human rights and their relationship to one another. They will gain an appreciation of how human rights are violated in conflict zones- through a consideration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lastly, students will consider some of the controversies surrounding human rights. Lesson includes an interactive game on human rights, research prompts to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an opportunity to assess the UN's Declaration of Human Rights.

In this lesson, students will identify how Common's rap song "A Dream" and Walter Dean Myers's short story "Monkeyman" reinterpret Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of nonviolence. Students will delve into a text-based discussion on characterization and conflict, as well as compose an essay on the Six Principles of Nonviolence (rubric available).

This lesson alerts students to the fallacies that surround them every day. In this lesson, students deconstruct fallacious images and messages in advertisements and demonstrate their understanding of the fallacies through multimedia presentations.

In these interconnected lessons from TeachHistory.org, students will: 1. evaluate and assess the reasons given to remove Native Americans from their ancestral lands 2. analyze the change in United States government policy towards Native Americans from Washington to Jackson 3. compare and contrast different primary source documents on the same topic 4. make connections between the removal of Native Americans and the theory of "Manifest Destiny." Resource includes an overview, suggested approaches and teacher background information.

This lesson explores the essay Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on an analysis of individualism. It includes background information on Emerson, sectional analysis of the text, accompanying reading questions and activities, vocabulary terms, and a suggested follow-up assignment.

This literacy assessment includes an excerpt from an 1873 speech, seven text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

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.

This one day unit includes an analysis of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", a sermon writing project, biographical information on Jonathan Edwards and discussion questions.