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You are buying the PDF eBook. How to Use the
Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
• 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!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
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 them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Western Expansion - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
The Louisiana Purchase...: Reading Informational Text
The Corps of Discovery: Comparison of Primary Sources
Full Steam Ahead: Primary Source Analysis
The Indian Removal Act: Cause & Effect G
Manifest Destiny: Reading Informational Text
American Progress: Primary Source Analysis
Expansion Quotations: Comparison of Primary Sources
The Oregon Trail: Research & Writing G
Oregon Boundary Dispute: Reading Informational Text
Mapping Westward Expansion: Summative Graphic Organizer G
Slavery Extends Westward: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Texas: The 28th State: Reading Information Text
Acquisition of Mexican Land: Map Activity
California Gold Rush: Reading Informational Text
Chinese in the West: Comparison of Primary Sources
Pacific Railroad Act of 1882: Reading Informational Text
The Homestead Act: Reading Informational Text
Chinese Exclusion Act: Point of View
Westward Expansion: Influential People G
Words of Expansion: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core State Standards Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)