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Declaration of Independence: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Declaration of Independence Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
Work 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 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!

Tips:
Use 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 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Early Independence: Reading Informational Text
Acts of Parliament: Main Idea Organizer G
Sons of Liberty & The Boston Tea Party: Reading Informational Text
The Boston Massacre: Primary Source Analysis
Paying the Excise Man : Comparison of Primary Sources
Loyalists, Neutralists, & Patriots: Point of View G
Join, or Die : Primary Source Analysis
The British Perspective: Reading Informational Text G
Path to the Declaration: Chronological Events GO12
Mapping the Declaration: Summative Flowchart G
Words of Declaration: Vocabulary GO10
Authors of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Drafting the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Structure of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Key Philosophy: Reading Informational Text GO1
Key Declaration Excerpts: Primary Source Analysis G
List of Complaints: Summarizing Information G
Created Equal?: Writing
Influence of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)