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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Anti Suffragists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage literature to explore...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sedition in World War I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students to read anti-war literature from World War I critics...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students deliberate the origins of the Chicago race riots by exploring five documents that...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Prohibition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Soldiers in Philippines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to use close reading skills to read a variety of primary source...
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Hofstra University

Hofstra Univ: Why Was Bubonic Plague So Devastating to European Society? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" came out of the eastern Mediterranean along shipping routes, reaching Italy in the spring of 1348. By the time the epidemic was abating in 1351, between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had died. The...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to investigate why the League of Nations was rejected by...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: World War I & 1920s

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate historical events. In this lesson students analyze historical evidence as they consider eight document-based questions about the post-war era of the...
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The Dbq Project

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Teach students how to read with understanding, think straight, and write clearly using document-based questions.
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society: Longfellow Amongst His Contemporaries: The Ship of State Dbq

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using a number of primary source documents, students will assess the validity of a claim. Practice for testing that includes DBQs, and for critical thinking, close reading skills.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History Exam Skills and Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Khan Academy resource provides a number of charts and videos that demonstrate how to approach the following types of AP US History Test questions: multiple choice, short answer, DBQ, and long essay. Exemplars for the planning of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Document Based Question Essays

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains 10 successful strategies for writing DBQ essays and graphic organizers to prepare 8th grade Social Studies students for the New York State assessment.