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Jamestown: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Jamestown 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 Jamestown - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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 Jamestown - 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 Jamestown - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Setting Sail: Reading Informational Text
Jamestown Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
John Smith s Map of Virginia: Primary Source Analysis
Descriptions of Virginia: Comparison of Primary Sources
The Location of Jamestown: Reading Informational Text
Jamestown Occupations: Data Analysis
Settlement of Jamestown: Chronological Events GO12
James Fort at Jamestown: Primary Source Analysis
John Smith Portrait: Primary Source Analysis
Quotes about John Smith: Primary Source Analysis G
Cause and Effect in Jamestown: Cause & Effect G
The Peace of Pocahontas: Inference & Writing
The Wedding of Pocahontas: Primary Source Analysis
Letter to Queen Anne: Primary Source Analysis
Powhatan Words: Primary Source Vocabulary Analysis G
Analyzing Tree Rings: Data Analysis
Colonists vs. Powhatans: Compare & Contrast GO1
Jamestown s Difficulties: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Tobacco and Slavery: 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)