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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Shays' Rebellion
[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 gain a more nuanced understanding of how Americans...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Slavery in Constitution
[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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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Hamilton v. Jefferson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. In this inquiry lesson plan, two letters to George Washington allow students to consider the competing...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Lewis and Clark
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), students 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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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Nat Turner
[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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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Texas Independence
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners 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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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: John Brown
[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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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like Historians: Emancipation Proclamation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students consider whether Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, or the...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...
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Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Chinese Immigration, Exclusion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars 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...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Little Bighorn
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to explore causes of the Battle of Little Bighorn by...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Populism: 1896 Election
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read two Populist speeches in order to explain why the...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Homestead Strike
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to use the historical thinking skills of...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Albert Parsons Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars 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...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Pullman Strike
[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 read parallel accounts of the Pullman...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Political Bosses
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Soldiers in Philippines
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to use close reading skills to read a variety of primary source...
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Stanford History Education Group: Home
[Free Registration/Login Required] Working with school districts from coast to coast, and as far away as Sweden, Singapore, and Chile, the Stanford History Education Group provides teachers with high-quality resources to enrich students'...
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The Dbq Project
Teach students how to read with understanding, think straight, and write clearly using document-based questions.