Each unit follows the Inquiry Arc and its four dimensions, including an overarching question, a contextual background essay, and approximately ten primary sources.
Each lesson meets both C3 and CCSS standards and contains a lower-lexile short text designed to engross students not only in famous events in U.
The simulations, which come with step-by-step directions, involve (1) role-playing a town hall in which pre-Revolutionary colonists debate whether or not to remain loyal to England, (2) imagining what Southern troops might have been thinking as they traveled the road home from Appomattox, and (3) conducting a modern legislative hearing to debate making reparations to […]
The strategies, their benefits, and guidelines for implementation are first explained using targeted activities, and then students practice the skills on 20 short texts written specifically for this book that cover topics from medieval Africa, China, and Europe to the founding of the United Nations.
Students practice the skills on 32 short texts written specifically for this book.
Specific topics include: why hunter/gatherers became farmers, African trade in the 9th–12th centuries, how the Black Death raised living standards, why China didn’t discover the New World, how colonial gold bankrupted Spain, Adam Smith and self-interest, the Industrial Revolution, Japan’s economic miracle, and the fall of communism.
For each era, a rationale specifies a handful of major themes; for each theme, 10–20 briefly stated activity ideas are presented (in total, more than 1200 activities, sorted by era and grade level).
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