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How to Use this Book:• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentation, and discussion in the activities as you desire-you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
The
Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.
How to Use The
Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
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Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The
Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• And More!
The Table of Contents for the
Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities include:
The Lost Colony: Reading Informational Text
Founding Plymouth Colony: Reading Informational Text
Early Savannah: Primary Source Analysis
The 13 Colonies: Map Activity GO2
Settling Pennsylvania: Reading Informational Text
Colonial Quotations: Primary Source Analysis G
Join, or Die: Primary Source Analysis
Colonial Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Compare and Contrast the 13 Colonies: Compare & Contrast G
Plantation Economy: Reading Informational Text
Slaves vs. Indentured Servants: Compare & Contrast GO1
Mercantilism and Triangular Trade: Reading Informational Text
Journal of Edward Winslow: Primary Source Analysis
Feast at Plymouth Colony: Secondary Source Analysis
Colonial Trades and Occupations: Reading Informational Text
Colonial America Events: Chronological Events GO12
Slave Auction: Primary Source Analysis GO9
Common Core CorrelationsGO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8" x 11" online download at www.gallopade.com/client/go
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)