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Literacy in History/Social Studies: 6-8th Grade ELA Common Core

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Literacy in History/Social Studies: 6-8th Grade ELA Common Core

Collector: Gabe B.

The common core literacy standards for social studies revolve around helping students closely read and understand primary and secondary sources. Browse these resources and find ones relevant to the social studies topics you're teaching!

6th - 8th Social Studies & History, Cultural & Social Studies 148 Views 12 Saves

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Concepts

information literacy, primary source analysis, close reading, informational texts

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.5 RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7 RH.6-8.9 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.6 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.6 WHST.6-8.7

Literacy in History/Social Studies (RH.6-8)

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Using Maps & Migration Patterns To Teach Immigration

The strand RH.6-8.7 specifically mentions maps, and this video details some strategies for incorporating maps in a unit on migration/immigration

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Using Primary Sources: Activity Pack | PBS

Have your students role play as "history detectives" in this collection of primary source-centered activities from PBS.

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Smithsonian Source

Primary Sources from the Smithsonian sorted by subject and type.

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Bring History to Life

In my opinion, this is the best website for finding primary sources of many types (text, photo, etc), finding primary-source centered activities, and for creating your own activities that revolve around primary sources.

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Teacher Resources - Library of Congress

Incredible collection of primary-source focused materials from the Library of Congress.

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Primary Sources | History Detectives | PBS

This resource from PBS has students using the internet to do their own research with primary sources. Especially helpful if you're doing a unit on Native Americans or the Trail of Tears.

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The 1963 March on Washington: Albert Shanker Institute

Primary source-centered lesson plan that has students doing a deep dive into the factors that led to the 1963 march on Washington. Students explore modern means of organizing rallies versus those employed in 1963.

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Fort Ticonderoga: Education Resources by Grade Level

A great collection of lessons from fortticonderoga.org, most of which are aligned with RH.6-8. Primary sources, multimedia, projects, and more.

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Teaching with primary sources

Collection of lesson plans and best practices about teaching with primary sources from Learn NC.

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Using Primary Sources: The Rogue's Gallery | History Detectives | PBS

Includes videos, so internet required.

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How Sports Shape America: Debates and Controversies

An engaging and provocative lesson from the Smithsonian about the role of sports in American culture. Has students reading, researching, and discussing primary sources.

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Oregon Digital Newspaper Program

Collection of lessons oriented around historical newspapers that are neatly sorted according to the strand of the RH.6-8 standard.

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Fact and Opinion Collection

RH.6-8.8 has to do with distinguishing facts from opinion. See this small collection I made of resources that just have to do with this skill.

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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech

Worksheet
Postcards From the American West

Activities & Project
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Handouts & Reference
Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Handouts & Reference
The Kwakwaka'Wakw: A Study of a North Pacific Coast People and the Potlatch

Lesson Plan
The Travels of Marco Polo

Presentation
Thomas Jefferson on Shay's Rebellion

Worksheet
Evaluating Sources

Lesson Plan
Walt Whitman and the Civil War

Lesson Plan
Investigating the Building Blocks of Our Community’s Past, Present, and Future

Lesson Plan
Keep It Real—Newspapers, the Ultimate Informational Text

Unit
Alabama Farm Life in the Great Depression

Lesson Plan
Citizens For and Against the War of 1812

Lesson Plan
Indian Removal

Lesson Plan
Analyzing Political Campaign Commercials

Lesson Plan
The Industrial Revolution: Life in the Cities

Lesson Plan
African Americans in Revolutionary Times

Lesson Plan
Analyzing the News

Graphic Organizer
Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War

Lesson Plan
Primary Source Worksheet: Abraham Lincoln, Draft of the Gettysburg Address

Worksheet
CSI: Florence

Activities & Project
A President's Vision: Ronald Reagan

Activities & Project
Reconstruction After the Civil War

Lesson Plan
Culture Connect: Experience the Culture of the World

Unit
Late Middle Ages Dossiers

Worksheet
The Sovereign State

Lesson Plan
Frederick Douglass’s Speech “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro”

Lesson Plan
Farewell to Manzanar

Unit
Make Your Case!

Lesson Plan
Engaging Students with Primary Source

Worksheet
Voices from Little Rock: Understanding the Civil Rights Movement through Primary Sources

Unit
Einstein and His Times

Lesson Plan

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