Standard W.MCC.1.1.a

W.MCC.1.1.a introduce claims, acknowledge and distinguish the claims from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically;

Grade(s): 8

Year: 2015

Historic Charleston Plays Host to Those Who Save History

Lesson

Use the links/resources, your textbook, and the information in the Sandlapper article “Historic Charleston Plays Host to Those Who Save History” to answer the questions and complete the activities.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Lesson

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...

What Can I Say To Convince You?

Lesson

In this lesson students will explore FDR’s New Deal program. They will then put themselves in the position of being strategists for a presidential campaign today. In doing so they will need to...