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U.S. History literature circles $10 and up
Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776 Novel Study
Incorporating novels with your social studies units is easy with this all inclusive print and go packet. I've included everything you need to work your way through this novel with ease.
Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776, is a book authored by Laurie Calkhoven. I have used this book for a number of years with our 4th grade social studies unit on the Revolutionary War, and I love this book! It grabs you and pulls you back in time to live alongside Daniel during this critical time in our co
Grades:
4th - 6th
Reader's Theater Scripts--Texas History (eBook)
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. Engage students through Reader's Theater to make learning fun while building knowledge of Texas history and the significant people, events, and places that make Texas what it is today. Improve vocabulary and comprehension with repeated practice and performance of the scripts along with TEKS-based activities in the lesson plans, which include word study, comprehension qu
Grades:
4th - 7th
Paired Texts: US History Bundle
This resource includes high-interest paired texts about 14 of the most famous people in United States history. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.
This Bundle Contains:
→ 28 Nonfiction Articles
→ 14 Quizzes
→ 7 Writing Prompts
→ Answer Keys for all quizzes
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Topics Covered:
→ The Childhood Years:
1 informational text about each person's childhood
1 quiz for every two texts
→ Adult Life:
1 informational text about e
Grades:
5th - 6th
The Grapes of Wrath, Literature Guide
Here is everything you need to teach Steinbeck's difficult historical novel about the Joad family. I have included historical information about the dust bowl and the Great Depression in addition to chapter summaries, discussion questions, themes and writing assignments.
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Copper Sun Novel Study by Sharon Draper
Sharon Draper’s historic fiction story of survival is dynamic and inspiring! Amari’s life was perfect, until slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family. Amari finds herself marched to Cape Coast, branded, and headed to the Carolinas on a horrible slave ship. She is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present. She meets Polly, a white indentured servant who also is owned by the Derbyshire plantation. Survival seems all that Amari can ho
Grades:
7th - 12th
The Radium Girls (Young Reader Edition) Chapter Questions & Answer Key
80+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This great resource provides a building foundation for young readers utilizing Kate Moore's book, The Radium Girls. In total, nearly 200 chapter context questions/critical thinking questions and teacher answer key will help guide discussion as you read this inspiring tale of standing up to corporations for what is right. Let us save you valuable time so you can focus on the important things in your unit! Discussion will be a breeze with our chapter by chapter
Grades:
7th - 10th
Out of the Dust: Chapter Questions & Answer Key (Karen Hesse) Dust Bowl
45 PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resource provides chapter context questions w/ answer key based on the John Newbery Medal Award winning Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. It is is the perfect for middle and lower high school students to access this pivotal moment in American History (the Dust Bowl) and life in the Heartland of America during the Great Depression. Follow the story of Billie Jo Kelby in this historical fiction novel composed in poetry format and based on true events. Use thes
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5th - 8th
Abraham Lincoln (10 Days That Shook Your World) Unit
This is a unit to use with the book Abraham Lincoln (10 Days That Shook Your World) by David Colbert. There is a quiz for each chapter of the book. The quizzes are a mixture of open ended questions and some multiple choice questions and answer keys are provided. There are two tests included with the unit. One test covers the Introduction through Day 5, and the second test covers Day 6 through the Afterword. The two tests are multiple choice with a few discussion questions. Answer keys are provid
Grades:
7th - 10th
Trinity: A Reader's Guide
If you are looking for a way to bring reading into the content areas (or science and social studies into reading), Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an excellent way to go. This book provides a scientific, historic and critical perspective of the building of the first atomic bomb in graphic form. I teach high school learning support reading, and I used each of these guides with my students. The guides were a little bit challenging, so I would actually
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9th - 12th
Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures Through Time
Climb aboard a time capsule for a trip around the globe to explore 15 different social studies topics ranging from Mesopotamian empires to the Incas with these engaging texts. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures Through Time is an award-winning resource designed to help all students grasp important historical people and events through high-interest social studies material written at four different reading levels ranging from 1.5 to 7.2. Each text is presented in a two-page format an
Grades:
4th - 12th
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor {Digital & PDF Included}
I Survived the Bombing of Peal Harbor is a great resource for integrating history into reading and writing! This I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Novel Unit and Research Project {Digital & PDF Included} will save you time planning to read I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor with your class and will give your students opportunities to practice comprehension and vocabulary skills with every chapter. In this bundle, you will find a PDF version of all worksheets and links to the digital
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers' Edition) Chapter Questions & Key
70+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resource provides chapter context questions w/ answer key based on In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers' Edition). The perfect adaptation for middle and lower high school students to access this influential period of maritime and historical importance. Use for comprehension and review during in class reading, an independent book study, or simply to guide class discussions. My students love reading about the completely true survival story of the whalesh
Grades:
6th - 9th
Magic Tree House: Revolutionary War on Wednesday Unit
This unit is jam-packed with activities to use with Revolutionary War on Wednesday and the non-fiction companion!
Included in this unit:
2 Vocabulary Study Guides
Vocabulary Activities and Printables
Vocabulary Flashcards with words pre-typed and editable cards
Vocabulary Crossword and Word Search
13 Character and Story Map Graphic Organizers (most of which can be used in ANY book)
2 Chapter Study Guides (comprehension questions)
Text Feature Scavenger Hunt
Common Core Objectives:
2nd grade
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Revolution- Chapter-by-Chapter Questions
I have prepared chapter-by-chapter questions for the novel "Revolution" by Deborah Wiles. This novel takes place in Greenwood, Mississippi during Freedom Summer-1964. The questions are great for guided reading groups, quizzes, or homework while reading and studying the novel. The questions require students to answer "right-there" questions, make inferences, use evidence from the text to support their answers, and look at what the historically accurate information that is included in the novel. T
Grades:
6th - 10th
Blood on the River - BUNDLED MATERIALS
The materials included in this .zip file accompany Elisa Carbone's "Blood on the River" historical fiction of Jamestown. The bundle includes comprehension questions, comprehension tests, vocabulary organizers, vocabulary reviews, vocabulary tests, extended responses, and other bonus materials used in class to enhance themes from the book.
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution Literature Unit
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution by Avi is a perfect novel for introduction historical fiction to your students. This is a complete literature unit with comprehension questions, vocabulary work, and section activities. There are options for end of the novel projects. The novel is broken into 12-week segments. There is some freedom and choice within the unit.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
American Revolution Literature Circles ; middle school ; differentiated ; bundle
American Revolutionary War Literature CirclesEver wonder how to differentiate instruction, teach leveled reading, have differentiated assessments and do it in a classroom with mixed learning abilities? Literature Circles may be the answer. My specialty is historical fiction. My husband is a social studies teacher, so it is just fun for my to find ways to teach cross curricular, while meeting rigorous state standards and differentiating instruction. I have a literature circle assignment that
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Grades:
5th - 8th
The American Revolution Through Leveled Novel Studies | Distance Learning
Teach the American Revolution through literature circles. Integrating your American Revolution studies into your Language Arts lessons allows students to put themselves into the lives of Patriots, Loyalists, and those caught in the middle. This unit may be taught with an existing Social Studies curriculum, or without one. The novels in these lessons will help students visualize what it was like to live during the time of the American Revolutionary war. This unit is written to last 8 weeks.
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Early America
Step into an earlier America to explore 15 different social studies topics ranging from exploring the New World to The Bill of Rights with these engaging texts. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Early America is an award-winning resource designed to help all students grasp important historical people and events through high-interest social studies material written at four different reading levels ranging from 1.5 to 7.2. Each text is presented in a two-page format and complemented with comprehen
Grades:
4th - 12th
Modern World History Pre-Colonial Americas: Primary Sources, History Hunts
OverviewUse primary sources to tell the story of Colonization of the Americas. These include Primary Texts that are investigated, annotated, and discussed — History Hunts full of primary images from before full-scale colonization took place, including maps, engravings, original watercolors, and more — Secondary Texts that paint contextual pictures for your students. These are all Student-Centered, Active, Independent Investigation activities, and they could be used to make an AP US History class
Grades:
9th - 12th
Black Like Me Novel Study
Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience traveling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. Unit Information – 35 pages/6 slidesThis novel study includes:· Introduction PowerPoint – (6 slides)· 231 Novel Study Q & A (10 pages)·
Grades:
8th - 12th
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More Deadly Than War Novel Guide (Spanish Flu)
The Spanish Flu is one of the biggest events in United States history that we almost never talk about. This novel guide will help students navigate the text “More Deadly Than War” by Kenneth Davis as they learn about the experience during WWI in the US and abroad. This product can be used for literature circles, independent reading, or whole class instruction. This growing bundle includes:- Chapter guides with answer keys- Quadrant quizzes with answer keys- Final project menu with rubric- Illust
Grades:
7th - 12th
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American Revolution Book Clubs Bundle
In this bundle, you will find everything you need to run Book Clubs based on four books: Johnny Tremain, The Fighting Ground, Phoebe the Spy, and My Brother Sam is Dead.
Inside you will find:
-Group Planning Sheets
-Bookmarks (with plan ---page numbers and due dates)
-Discussions Cards to use for weekly meetings
-Discussion Questions for the end of the books (on Google Slides AND reproducibles)
-Assessments (on Google Docs and reproducibles)
-Assessment KEYS (on Google Docs and reproducibles)
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Jason Reynolds' Stamped: Worksheets with Answer Notes for Every Chapter + More!
This is a fantastic book that everyone should read! This product includes worksheets for every chapter of the book, divided into sections for your ease. Each section includes sections for students to make connections, check for their understanding, analyze, and discuss. Each worksheet also has answer notes. Bonus material includes an EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation to accompany the worksheet and think beyond it with videos and more.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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