Colonial America - Common Core Lessons & Activities

Colonial America - Common Core Lessons & Activities

<b>How to Use this Book:</b><br /> 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. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentation, and discussion in the activities as you desire you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />The <b>Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.<br /><br />How to Use The <b>Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book: <br /> 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. <br /> Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills. <br /> Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. <br /> Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! <br /><br />Tips: <br /> Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. <br /> Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine. <br /> Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The <b>Colonial America - Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> book includes: <br /> Reading for Information<br /> Higher-Order Thinking<br /> Writing Problems<br /> Primary Source Analysis<br /> Vocabulary<br /> Graphic Organizers<br /> Map Activities<br /> And More! <br /><br />The Table of Contents for the <b>Colonial America Common Core Lessons and Activities</b> include: <br /><b>The Lost Colony: </b> Reading Informational Text <b>Founding Plymouth Colony: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Early Savannah: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>The 13 Colonies: </b> Map Activity GO2<br /><b>Settling Pennsylvania: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Colonial Quotations: </b> Primary Source Analysis G<br /><b>Join, or Die: </b> Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Colonial Vocabulary: </b> Vocabulary GO10<br /><b>Compare and Contrast the 13 Colonies: </b> Compare & Contrast G<br /><b>Plantation Economy: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Slaves vs. Indentured Servants: </b> Compare & Contrast GO1<br /><b>Mercantilism and Triangular Trade: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Journal of Edward Winslow: </b>Primary Source Analysis<br /><b>Feast at Plymouth Colony: </b> Secondary Source Analysis<br /><b>Colonial Trades and Occupations: </b> Reading Informational Text<br /><b>Colonial America Events: </b> Chronological Events GO12<br /><b>Slave Auction: </b> Primary Source Analysis GO9<br /><b>Common Core Correlations</b><br /><br /><b>GO: Graphic Organizers