Grades 7 and 8 Literacy Library Materials at Sagamore
Grades 7 and 8 Literacy Library Materials at Sequoya
Civil Rights Movement
Poetry Lessons:
In Flanders Field
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Other Short Readings to Supplement Social Studies Grades 6 - 8
Alexander Hamilton
Slavery
US Constitution and Government
Non-Fiction Inquiry Circle Materials
Mr. Saccullo's Site, Samoset Middle School
DBQ Essay with 2 bullets
DBQ Essay with 3 bullets
Bucketing DBQ Outline with SIM
Archive of Social Studies Assessments:
2010 Slavery
2009 Technology Positive and Negative Effects
Mrs. Gennosa's National Endowment of the Humanities unit on the Renaissance
DBQ Resources, Grades 6 - 8
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
The Library of Congress
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html
National Archives Online Exhibits
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html
EyeWitness to History: Ancient World to 20th Century
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
Our Documents initiative is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps
http://www.edteck.com/dbq/start/guide.htm
Combined resources from The Learning Page, Library of Congress, The Digital Classroom, National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.library.uni.edu/instruction/courses/digitalhistory.shtml
University of North Iowa’s Digitized Primary American History Sources
http://www.historyplace.com/
Primary Source documents from The History Place.
Topics: American Revolution, U.S. Civil War, Natives of North America, Child Labor 1908 – 1912, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Apollo 11, WWII battle photos, Pearl Harbor, African-Americans in WWII, Vietnam War, the presidents of the U.S., Nazi Germany/WWII, Genocide in 20th Century
http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/
Teachersfirst.com: U.S. History
6th grade
http://www.mrmoore.net/UNIT%206%20GREECE%20and%20ROME/GREECE%20AND%20ROME%20DBQ.pdf
Ancient Greece and Rome DBQ, Grade 6
http://www.globaled.org/curriculum/china/julieseamus/dbq%20documents.pdf
DBQ on different belief systems of Chinese Rulers
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#byz2
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook
http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/map.html
Oriental Institute Photographic Archives
http://yourhistorysite.com/6th%20grade%20curriculum/DBQ%20river%20valley%20civilizations.pdf
A 6th grade DBQ on River Valley Civilizations
7th grade
http://www.ccsd.edu/link/LMS/CivilWarDBQ/CivilWarDBQ.htm
Causes of the Civil War DBQ
http://www.ccsd.edu/link/LMS/PrimarySources/AmeRevPrimary.htm
Primary and Secondary Sources about the American Revolution
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
American History documents
8th grade
http://www.nysha.org/nysha/for_teachers/classroom_resources/document_based_questions
New York State Historical Association: America in the 1800’s
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm
Archive of Dr. Seuss’ WWII political cartoons
http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/photos/
Shamash Jewish Network: Holocaust Photos
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201
Museum of Tolerance Online
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
New York Public Library: 19th Century Images of African Americans
http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
New Deal Network
http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm?once=true&
About.com: 20th Century History – Photographs of the Great Depression
Professional Development
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/DBQ.html
Earth Link: DBQ do’s and don’t’s
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/twd
National Council of Social Studies: Teaching with Documents
http://www.edteck.com/dbq/
Teaching with Documents
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/dbq/iifour.html
Writing the DBQ essay, from NYSED
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html#cat1
Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions: An Internet Hotlist on Document Based Questions, created by Paula Goldstein, Nassau BOCES
http://www.buffalodiocese.org/cathed/ci/Document%20Based%20Questions%20by%20Dan.pdf
A guide for writing document based questions
Individual sites:
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#Calendars calendars
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/ compare/contrast lesson
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/map/ compare/contrast map
http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/ Bio-cube for biography reports.
http://www.aesopfables.com/ Aesop’s Fables: a compilation of over 600 fables
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html Anagrams: Have fun with language.
http://bookadventure.org/ki/bs/ki_bs_helpfind.asp Book Finder: Help with finding a book.
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/ Booktalks: Student reviews of favorite books.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts Language Arts Lesson Plans
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/ Reader’s Theater
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html on-line children’s stories
http://www.coolquotes.com/ Collection of “cool quotes”
http://fictionwriting.about.com/?once=true& A guide to fiction writing; how to get published