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span style=”font-size: medium;”Declaration of Independence – Common Core Lessons and Activities book/spanMeet the new Common Core State Standards/em for ELA as well as Literacy ;amp; Writing in History and Social Studies! This book 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. Copyright 2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.span style=”font-size: small;”Here’s how it works!/spanWork 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 State Standards 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!span style=”font-size: small;”Declaration of Independence – Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:/spanReading for InformationHigher-Order ThinkingWriting ProblemsPrimary Source AnalysisVocabularyGraphic OrganizersMap Activities ;amp; More!span style=”font-size: small;”Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:/spanUse 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 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see whichCommon Corestandards are covered in each lesson.divCopyright 2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.ISBN:978-0-635-10550-9/divspan style=”font-size: small;”Table of Contents include:/spanEarly Independence: Reading Informational Textbr /Acts of Parliament: Main Idea Organizerbr /Sons of Liberty ;amp; The Boston Tea Party: Reading Informational Textbr /The Boston Massacre: Primary Source Analysisbr /”Paying the Excise Man”: Comparison of Primary Sourcesbr /Loyalists, Neutralists, ;amp; Patriots: Point of Viewbr /”Join, or Die”: Primary Source Analysisbr /The British Perspective: Reading Informational Textbr /Path to the Declaration: Chronological Eventsbr /Mapping the Declaration: Summative Flowchartbr /Words of Declaration: Vocabularybr /Authors of the Declaration: Reading Informational Textbr /Drafting the Declaration: Reading Informational Textbr /Structure of the Declaration: Reading Informational Textbr /Key Philosophy: Reading Informational Textbr /Key Declaration Excerpts: Primary Source Analysisbr /List of Complaints: Summarizing Informationbr /Created Equal?: Writingbr /Influence of the Declaration: Reading Informational Textbr /Common Core State Standards Correlations
