1990s America Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 38 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 38 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 1990s Terms include: George HW Bush Dan Quayle Saddam Hussein Hubble Space Telescope Colin Powell Norman Schwarzkopf Operation Desert Storm Persian Gulf War Bill Clinton Al Gore Grassroots Movement Deficit Spending Budget Deficit NAFTA START End of USSR Clarence Thomas Ross Perot LA Riots Hillary Clinton OJ Simpson Trial Impeachment of Bill Clinton and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! 1990s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

1980s America Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 39 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 39 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 1980s Terms include: Ronald Reagan Deregulation Sandra Day O’Connor Supply-side economics Federal Debt George HW Bush Geraldine Ferraro Iran-Contra Affair Mikhail Gorbachev INF Glasnost Tienanmen Square Saddam Hussein Colin Powell Norman Schwarzkopf New Right Miracle on Ice Solidarity Movement Recession SDI/Star Wars Sally Ride South Korean Flight 007 Reagan Doctrine Challenger Black Monday Exxon Valdez Berlin Wall AIDS Epidemic Steve Jobs Apple Inc. Microsoft Windows Bill Gates The Internet These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! 1980s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Great Depression TASK CARDS and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 58 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 58 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Great Depression unit. Terms include: Herbert Hoover Stock Exchange Hoovervilles Black Tuesday Public Works Bonus Army Hundred Days Fireside Chats Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt New Deal Work Relief Tennessee Valley Authority Dust Bowl Corporation Shares Invest Overproduction Under-consumption Prosperity Recession Depression and more! Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Great Depression Task Cards ASSL © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

World War II Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 76 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 76 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the World War II unit. Terms include: Fascism Appeasement Munich Conference Blitzkrieg Allied Powers Axis Powers Battle of Berlin Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor WAC WAVES Mobilization Ration Tuskegee Airmen Interment Camps Dwight Eisenhower George Patton and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! World War II Task Cards ASSL © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Cold War Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 56 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 56 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Cold War unit. Terms include: Harry Truman Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Fair Deal Cold War Containment Communism Truman Doctrine NATO Warsaw Pact Berlin Airlift Mao Zedong 38th Parallel Blacklists Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Closed Shop Stalemate Demilitarized Zone Arms Race Nuclear Summit Korean War and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Cold War Task Cards ASSL © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Progressive Era Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 71 (REALLY?!!) vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) Terms include: Progressives Political Machines Political Boss Kickback Boss Tweed Thomas Nast Spoils System Patronage Pendleton Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Oligopoly Interstate Commerce Act Tariff Socialism Eugene V. Debs Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Upton Sinclair and more! This set of 71 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the Progressive Era. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Progressive Era Task Cards © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Progressive Era Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 71 (REALLY?!!) vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) Terms include: Progressives Political Machines Political Boss Kickback Boss Tweed Thomas Nast Spoils System Patronage Pendleton Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Oligopoly Interstate Commerce Act Tariff Socialism Eugene V. Debs Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Upton Sinclair and more! This set of 71 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the Progressive Era. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Roaring Twenties Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 58 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 58 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Roaring Twenties unit. Terms include: Capitalism Anarchists Red Scare Calvin Coolidge Marcus Garvey Warren G. Harding Ohio Gang Teapot Dome Scandal Laissez-Faire Economics Isolationism Kellogg-Briand Pact Gross National Product Installment Buying Henry Ford Assembly Line Charles Lindbergh Flapper and more! Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Roaring Twenties Task Cards ASSL © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

World War I Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE DRIVE Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 74 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 74 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the World War I unit. Terms include: Isolationism Expansionism Archduke Franz Ferdinand Nationalism Militarism Alliance System Balance of Power Imperialism Triple Entente Triple Alliance Allied Powers Central Powers Western Front Stalemate Military Front Battle of the Marne Trenches Poisonous Gas U-Boats Zeppelin Machine Gun Red Baron Dogfights Armored Tank Propaganda Lusitania Zimmerman Note and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! World War I Task Cards ASSL © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

World War I Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 74 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 74 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the World War I unit. Terms include: Isolationism Expansionism Archduke Franz Ferdinand Nationalism Militarism Alliance System Balance of Power Imperialism Triple Entente Triple Alliance Allied Powers Central Powers Western Front Stalemate Military Front Battle of the Marne Trenches Poisonous Gas U-Boats Zeppelin Machine Gun Red Baron Dogfights Armored Tank Propaganda Lusitania Zimmerman Note and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Manifest Destiny Map Review Activity Aim: Reviewing details and locations of the Manifest Destiny territories FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Cover Page • 8 Manifest Destiny territory stations • 6 sets of questions for 6 groups • Answer Key for Teachers DIRECTIONS FOR ACTIVITY: With their group, students travel from territory to territory answering the questions. When they answer the question they'll travel to that territory. They "post" their colored post-it with the corresponding question number on it to that territory. After the activity, students answer the two follow-up questions with their group. I use six different sets of colored post-its labeled 1 through 15 for each group. NOTE: Post-its not included in this product! Differentiation: cooperative {students work in pairs/groups according to teacher's discretion for questions} ★ You can find all my Manifest Destiny Unit lessons and activities HERE. ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Manifest Destiny Review ASSL •• Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! Digital Paper by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts Manifest Destiny Clip Art by Kerri's Art Corner GET IT HERE! © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

The Bill of Rights A Primary Source Document, Common Core Based Lesson Aim: How does the Bill of Rights of the Constitution help protect American citizens? ★★ BONUS FLASH CARDS INCLUDED! Included in this product: • Title page • Do Now question: What is the most important right you think we have as Americans? • The Bill of Rights {transcript}: Each of the first ten amendments are written with vocabulary defined for student application • Scaffolding Questions based on Bill of Rights amendments • Bill of Rights Analysis scenario activity for student understanding and application {can be a cooperative activity or individual} • Application/Closing/Higher Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Teachers ★★ BONUS!: Bill of Rights {First 10 Amendments} Flash Cards! Simply print out, place back to back in a laminator, and you have wonderful flash cards for student review!! :) These flash cards are only $2 when included in this lesson! ★ Want this lesson without flash cards? Find it here. ★ Looking for just the Flash Cards? Find them HERE! Students will research and understand the concept and impact of the Bill of Rights Amendments and apply their new knowledge by answering scaffolding questions based on the transcript of the BOR, and a BOR scenario activity Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary Differentiation: cooperative {students may work in pairs/groups according to teacher's discretion for activities}; questions are scaffolded; students argue their opinions using relevant examples and details from the lesson and their knowledge of social studies Patriotic Papers and Stars provided by Ashley Hughes American Symbols Clip Art by Kerri's Art Corner KG Fonts © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Vietnam Era Task Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 49 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 49 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Cold War and Vietnam War unit. Terms include: • Guerrilla Warfare • Respond • Flexible Response • Executive Order • Peace Corps • Fidel Castro • Bay of Pigs • CIA • Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Blockade • NASA • John Glenn • Apollo 11 • Neil Armstrong • Vietnam War • Ho Chi Minh • Geneva Accords • Hanoi • Ngo Dinh Diem • Vietcong • Regime • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Escalate • Search and Destroy Missions • Napalm • Agent Orange • Counterculture • Military Draft • Deferment • Conscientious Objector • Tet Offensive • Credibility Gap • Robert F. Kennedy • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Hubert H. Humphrey • George C. Wallace • Richard M. Nixon • Henry Kissinger • “Vietnamization” • Demonstrations • Martial Law • Pentagon Papers • Paris Peace Accords • M.I.A. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

America in the 1970s Task Cards Included in this product: Title page Full Set of 43 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 43 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 1970s unit. Terms include: • Henry Kissinger • Realpolitik • Detente • Balance of Power • “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” • Zhou Enlai • Technology • Leonoid Brezhnev • Salt I • Embargo • Yom Kippur War • Golda Meir • Anwar el-Sadat • New Federalism • Revenue Sharing • Affirmative Action • OSHA • EPA • Tight Money Policy • Deficit • OPEC • Energy • Watergate Scandal • Sam Ervin • Executive Privlege • Gerald Ford • Impeach • Resign • Controversy • Amnesty • Jimmy Carter • Trade Deficit • Three Mile Island • Human Rights • Apartheid • Camp David Accords • Salt II • Fundamentalists • Iranian Revolution • Election of 1980 • Richard Nixon These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Vietnam Era Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 49 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 49 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Cold War and Vietnam War unit. Terms include: • Guerrilla Warfare • Respond • Flexible Response • Executive Order • Peace Corps • Fidel Castro • Bay of Pigs • CIA • Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Blockade • NASA • John Glenn • Apollo 11 • Neil Armstrong • Vietnam War • Ho Chi Minh • Geneva Accords • Hanoi • Ngo Dinh Diem • Vietcong • Regime • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Escalate • Search and Destroy Missions • Napalm • Agent Orange • Counterculture • Military Draft • Deferment • Conscientious Objector • Tet Offensive • Credibility Gap • Robert F. Kennedy • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Hubert H. Humphrey • George C. Wallace • Richard M. Nixon • Henry Kissinger • “Vietnamization” • Demonstrations • Martial Law • Pentagon Papers • Paris Peace Accords • M.I.A. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Vietnam Era Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

America in the 1970s Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING Included in this product: Title page Full Set of 43 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 43 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 1970s unit. Terms include: • Henry Kissinger • Realpolitik • Detente • Balance of Power • “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” • Zhou Enlai • Technology • Leonoid Brezhnev • Salt I • Embargo • Yom Kippur War • Golda Meir • Anwar el-Sadat • New Federalism • Revenue Sharing • Affirmative Action • OSHA • EPA • Tight Money Policy • Deficit • OPEC • Energy • Watergate Scandal • Sam Ervin • Executive Privlege • Gerald Ford • Impeach • Resign • Controversy • Amnesty • Jimmy Carter • Trade Deficit • Three Mile Island • Human Rights • Apartheid • Camp David Accords • Salt II • Fundamentalists • Iranian Revolution • Election of 1980 • Richard Nixon These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! 190s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Civil Rights Movement Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 50 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 50 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Civil Rights Movement unit. Terms include: • Discrimination • Racism • Segregation • CORE • NAACP • Plessy v. Ferguson • Thurgood Marshall • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Earl Warren • Integration • Little Rock 9 • Rosa Parks • Boycott • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Civil Disobedience • John F. Kennedy • “New Frontier” • Lyndon B. Johnson • Poverty Line • Job Corps • Medicare • Medicaid • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Sit-in • Ella Baker • Robert F. Kennedy • Interstate • James Meredith • George Wallace • Medgar Evers • Register • “Freedom Summer” • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Malcolm X • “Black Power” • Feminists • NOW • Equal Rights Amendment • Sandra Day O’Connor • Latino • Cesar Chavez • American Indian Movement These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Civil Rights Movement Task Cards ASSL © 2017 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources An Introduction to Primary & Secondary Sources: Political Cartoons, Scaffolding Questions, Constructed-Response Questions, and more! FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM This series of activities and examples introduces primary and secondary sources to your students! Included in this resource: • Analyzing Primary & Secondary Sources Cover page • Analyzing Primary & Secondary Sources Cover page for students • What is a document? Explanation page • Problems with Primary Sources explanation and activity • How do I analyze a document? Explanation with example activity • Analyzing Political Cartoons explanation and activity • Answering Constructed-Response Questions explanation and activity • Application/Closing/Higher-Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Teachers ★ Looking for more introductory lessons and activities in the Social Studies? Find posters, activities, and more here! If you would like more information on how to execute this lesson/activity in your class, please email me at asocialstudieslife@gmail.com. ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources ASSL Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! Digital Papers by Erin Bradley Clipart by Melonheadz KG Fonts © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Social Studies Essay Writing Writing Document-Based Question Essays & Thematic Essays in Social Studies FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM This packet of tips, do's and don'ts covers everything your students need to know in writing a document-based or thematic essay! Included in this resource: • Essay Writing in Social Studies Cover page • Essay Writing in Social Studies cover page for students • Common Key Action Words Page • Thematic Essay "Tip Sheet" • Document-Based Question (DBQ) "Tip Sheet" • Writing a "good" DBQ body paragraph that includes documents & outside information • Transitional Words and Phrases sheet • Rules of Writing: Do's & Don'ts ★★ Please NOTE: I am a teacher from New York where our students are required to learn to write DBQ's and Thematic Essays. You and your state may call the essays something entirely different! It is a great tool for your students no matter what you call the essays! ★ I spend two to three days and go over this entire packet with my students. Then, I print in color and laminate the packet and keep it posted in my classroom year-round! ★ If you are interested in teaching your students how to implement primary/secondary sources in their writing, find my Primary and Secondary Sources packet, HERE! If you would like more information on how to execute this lesson/activity in your class, please email me at asocialstudieslife@gmail.com. ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Social Studies Essay Writing ASSL Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! Digital Papers by Erin Bradley Clipart by Melonheadz & Original Illustrations by KERRI WEBB - Kerri's Art Corner Fonts by Kimberly Geswein & Kevin & Amanda © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Civil War Document-Based Essay Question Documents, Graphic Organizer, Outline, Essay Question, Rubric FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Aim: Causes of the Civil War Included in this resource: • Title page • Historical Context and Task Question page • 6 documents ranging on the causes of the Civil War: Slavery, Sectionalism, States’ Rights, Secession • Causes of the Civil War graphic organizer • Causes of the Civil War DBQ Essay Outline for student use • DBQ Essay Rubric • Suggested Answer Key for Teachers Students will read, research, analyze, and critically think to answer scaffolding questions based on the documents and their knowledge of the Civil War. They will complete the graphic organizer and outline using their notes and knowledge. They will then write their essay answering the task question using all of the information gathered. ★ NOTE: I use this DBQ with my students in grades 7 and 8. I usually split the work into three (3) lesson periods - Day 1 working on the documents, Day 2 working on the outline and graphic organizer, and Day 3 writing the essay. Your use is based on YOUR discretion. Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary, argument Differentiation: cooperative (may work with a partner(s) according to teacher’s discretion for scaffolding questions and graphic organizer) ★ You can find all of my Civil War lessons and activities HERE! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Civil War DBQ Essay ASSL •• Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! Cover page digital paper by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.