Grade(s): 8
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2015
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Grades: 6, 7, 8
This lesson explores heritage tourism, how it can preserve historical sites like Fort Frederick, and challenges students to brainstorm creative ways to promote such locations for future generations...
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Grades: 8, 12
In recognition of April's Honoree for the 2024 South Carolina African American History Calendar, John L. Scott, students will explore the Legislative Process.
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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Grades: 8
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Grades: 8
Students will examine multiple perspectives of different groups of people on the notion of freedom during the American Revolution. The class forms into 5 groups: Patriots, Loyalists/British, Enslaved...
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Grades: 8, 9, 10
Within this unit, students will see excellent PBS interviews with theatre professionals employed in these positions: Senior Vice President of Theatre Operations, Theatre Director, Playwright, Producer...
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Grades: 8
In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, Miss V. gives Cricket a dowser to help her find the hidden treasure box. Using the book as a starting point, introduce students to the use of dowsing and the...
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Grades: 8
The Revolutionary War in the South laid the groundwork for the eventual Patriot victory at Yorktown. There were many battles with both successes and defeats. Students will be asked to explore each...
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Grades: 5, 7, 8, 10, 12
Using a news photo, students use close reading skills and assume the role of journalists who must write about events represented by the image.
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Grades: 8
In this series of learning experiences, students will gather information from primary source documents and media in order to develop an understanding of how early South Carolinians used their natural...
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Grades: 8
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.
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Grades: 8
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...
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Grades: 8
The students will be able to create a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation about the influence of the Reconstruction Policy in relation to the Freedmen’s Bureau, Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan, Congress’...
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Grades: 8
During Reconstruction and the years following the end of Reconstruction, segregation and redemptive southern policies greatly affected the lives of African Americans. Use the background information...
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Grades: 8
Every day we are all bombarded with events, that together, form our daily lives. These events affect our lives in small and large ways. Often, simultaneous events overlap, which compound the effect of...
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Grades: 8
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...
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Grades: 8
Students will research and describe the events and historical figures that were integral to the Solid South’s shift from supporting the Democratic Party to supporting the Republican Party. Students...
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Grades: 8
As a result of the explorations of the Spanish, French, and English, there was much competition to settle permanent colonies in the New World. There were many hardships (such as disease, climate...
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Grades: 8
The mid-1700s saw the rise of plantations across the South and the move from sustenance to cash crops saw a greater dependence on slave labor. The labor-intensive, back-breaking work of planting and...
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Grades: 8
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...
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Grades: 8
The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...