The selection is about Ghana, an ancient culture that was one of Africa’s great trading empires in the third century A.D. Gold mines, extensive trading, and advanced farming villages all contributed to the rise and success of Ghana. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments. Includes printable copies of text.

Students will particiate in a Socratice Seminar to discuss the idea of non-conformity as a relative theme in the novel Stargirl. Students will refer to text annotations and class discussions (option: complete TPFASTT) to make contributions to the student led discussion.

While the French had kept their end of the bargain by completing the statue itself, the Americans had still not fulfilled their commitment to erect a pedestal. In this lesson, students learn about the effort to convince a skeptical American public to contribute to the effort to erect a pedestal and to bring the Statue of Liberty to New York.

In the summer of 1988, fires raged out of control in Yellowstone National Park. Though it seemed like total devastation to outsiders, the fires burned in only one-third of the park, and the new growth that resulted promoted the flourishing of certain birds, animals, and plants. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students will learn strategies and activities for learning about economics, civics and government, and U.S. history text through reading, taking notes, and composing a response about capitalism through a claims and evidence based approach.

In this lesson, students will become familiar with analyzing events and ideas using primary and secondary sources. Tasks involve evaluating text for author’s point of view; determining central ideas, reviewing information for cause and effect relationships, as well as distinguishing fact from opinion using political cartoons.

In this activity, students will explore the perspectives of two Native American authors about the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday and then write journal entries.

In this activity, students complete a primary source worksheet focused on close reading skills. Students are asked to read and analyze Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789.

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.

In this 3 day lesson that includes 4 activities, students will learn how to analyze textual detail as a key to discovering meaning, focusing on reading, analyzing, and comparing texts. Students will also develop a comparative question in groups and individually write a paragraph answering their question.

In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through these stories with text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This cross-curricular ELA/science module consists of three units. In Unit 1, students build background knowledge about the central role that water plays in all life. In Unit 2, students use the US Environmental Protection Agency My WATERS Mapper to explore major US watersheds and the USGS National Water Information System to examine their local watershed. Unit 3 provides scaffolding toward students' summative writing assessment.

This article discusses the physiological demands on sled dogs who are running a race such as the Iditarod. It would be impossible for a human to complete this 1,000-mile race, even if it were done in chunks, with plenty of recovery time. Unlike humans, these sled dogs are able to maintain a high level of exercise for over two weeks without experiencing fatigue. Dr. Mike Davis, as explained in the article, is investigating how. The link between digestion and respiration is discussed as well as how this research may benefit humans with type 2 diabetes. A student worksheet is provided to guide student reading.

In this video, the teacher instructs the students how to develop their writing to have a clear point of view based on the informational text they have read.

In this video, students study a mentor text to help strengthen the endings of their narratives. Students work through an activity to understand the author's intent and purpose for writing events in a story.

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

Zlata's Diary chronicles the daily life of Zlata, an eleven year-old girl during wartime in Sarajevo, and the war's increasing impact on her hometown of Sarajevo and her family. This courageous, intelligent young woman has been called "the Anne Frank of Sarajevo" for her searing account of war's effects, but her story has had a happier ending. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.