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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sharecropping

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to critically evaluate their classroom...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Stamp Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to engage in key aspects of historical thinking as they...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:sourcing Classroom Poster

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sourcing asks students to consider who wrote a document as well as the circumstances of its creation. Who authored a given document? When? For what purpose? This poster reminds students before reading a...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Federalists & Anti Federalists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to read Federalist and Anti-Federalist positions from...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Puritans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to source, corroborate, and contextualize speeches from...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:examining Passenger Lists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students critically examine the passenger lists of ships headed to New England and Virginia to...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Great Awakening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan about the Great Awakening allows students to critically examine three...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Salem Witch Trials

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry instructional activity allows students to use four historical sources to build a...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Loyalists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Who were the Loyalists? Why did they oppose independence? In this historical inquiry lesson, students seek answers to these questions by sourcing, contextualizing, and corroborating two documents...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students weigh contrasting interpretations by prominent historians to answer the question: Why...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Shays' Rebellion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to gain a more nuanced understanding of how...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Slavery in Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate the central historical question about slavery. In this investigation students consider the positions of delegates to the Constitutional Convention...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Hamilton v. Jefferson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. In this inquiry lesson, two letters to George Washington allow students to consider the competing politics...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), learners read four documents that give different accounts of how Lewis and Clark treated the Native Americans they met on their expedition. Students are...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Nat Turner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Nat Turner led the largest slave uprising the South would see until the Civil War. The infamy of the event has led to multiple interpretations of Turner as a historical figure. By sourcing and...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Texas Independence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read parts of the Texas Declaration of Independence,...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: John Brown

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students must determine whether John Brown was a "misguided fanatic," by examining a speech by...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like Historians: Emancipation Proclamation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry instructional activity allows students consider whether Abraham Lincoln freed the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. For this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Chinese Immigration, Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students reading primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to explore the social and economic factors that fueled the wave of...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Little Bighorn

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry activity allows students to explore causes of the Battle of Little Bighorn by...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Populism: 1896 Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry activity allows students to read two Populist speeches in order to explain why the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Homestead Strike

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to use the historical thinking skills of corroboration,...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Albert Parsons Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students read six different sources that provide insight into what happened at Haymarket Square...