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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