Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

Digital Citizenship: Real News vs Fake News
Digital Citizenship: Real News vs Fake News

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A recent study by Stanford University found an overwhelming majority of students were not able to tell the difference between so-called fake news and real news. Part of the solution involves providing...

Settling the Backcountry
Settling the Backcountry

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South Carolina began as a proprietary colony, but in order to attract more settlers, the proprietors gave some of their political control to the landowners. This, however, did not mean that they...

Resisting Slavery - Oral Histories
Resisting Slavery - Oral Histories

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What is Oral History? - Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral...

The Pursuit of Francis Marion
The Pursuit of Francis Marion

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Help the Patriot Cause!! - The following letter is an “imagined correspondence” between Colonel Francis Lord Rawdon, British commanding officer of the British outpost at Camden, and Lieutenant Colonel...

The Progressive Movement Continues?
The Progressive Movement Continues?

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The Progressive Movement marked a period of great change in society and increased involvement of American government in the regulation of American society. Today, people still debate the role of...

Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Students have studied the Fifteenth Amendment, which was supposed to have granted African-American male citizens the right to vote, as well as the Nineteenth Amendment which expanded voting rights to...