Teaching Historical Thinking and the Common Core Chart (Grades 9-10)
This chart presents historical thinking questions, historical thinking skills, and Common Core reading and writing skills that teachers should consider when planning activities and tasks for students in grades 9 and 10.
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2049, 2050
Teaching Historical Thinking and the Common Core chart (Grades 6-8)
This chart presents historical thinking questions, historical thinking skills, and Common Core reading and writing skills that teachers should consider when planning activities and tasks for students in grades 6, 7, and 8.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
2013
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2049, 2601
Teaching Historical Thinking and the Common Core Chart (Grades 11-12)
This chart presents historical thinking questions, historical thinking skills, and Common Core reading and writing skills that teachers should consider when planning activities and tasks for students in grades 11 and 12.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
2013
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2050, 2061
Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence Answer Key
Work
This sheet provides answers for the classroom activity Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence.
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2012
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1989
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Farm vs. Factory: Finding and Citing Evidence Worksheet
Work
This worksheet helps students to gather evidence from two primary documents from young women who worked in the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1830s and 1840s, and use that evidence in a paragraph.
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2012
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1822, 1821, 1987, 1549, 1989
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Farm vs. Factory: Constructing a Paragraph Worksheet
This worksheet helps students to understand the component parts of a paragraph (claim/counterclaim, supporting details, conclusion/summary) using a paragraph about a cover image from <em>The Lowell Offering</em>. <em>The Lowell Offering</em><span> was a monthly magazine written by the young women who worked in the Lowell textile mills and published from 1840 to 1845.</span>
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2012
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1989
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Farm vs. Factory: Citing Evidence
Gender and Sexuality
Work
This activity asks students to analyze three primary documents about the experiences of young women who worked in textile factories in New England during the 1830s and 1840s. It provides worksheets to guide and support students in writing a paragraph that cites evidence about the documents.
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2012
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Antebellum America (1816-1860)
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Constitution Worksheet
Immigration and Migration
This worksheet helps students to analyze excerpts from the LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) constitution for meaning, language, and tone.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2012
1942
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Theme Team Worksheets for <em>The Journal of Sean Sullivan</em>
Immigration and Migration
Expansion and Imperialism
This set of worksheets provides reading questions and writing tasks that cover five themes (work, corruption, tensions among immigrant groups, conflict with Indians, boomtowns) found in the historical fiction book, <em>The Journal of Sean Sullivan</em>.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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1924, 1923
English
Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Active Viewing: <em>Up South</em>
In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/">Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War</a></em> with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, sharecropping, migration, and life in northern cities. At the end of the activity, students complete a short writing task on how life changed and how it stayed the same for migrants, and how they tried to improve their lives in the North.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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English
Modern America (1914-1929)