Higher Education U.S. History Interactive Notebooks

This close read focus' in on "Children for the Colony of Jamestown". This gives guided questions, time to reflect and digs into the vocab. This is a great way to incorporate Marzano strategies alongside ELA annotated text strategies to increase gains by 35%. If your students are struggling with close reading or are still using highlighters (and highlighting the ENTIRE page), this will be extremely helpful. However, this will be useful even if they are old pros at annotating. Students will not only learn how to annotate and read deeply, they will also learn what information to look for depending on the genre. Teaching students how to read closely empowers them to become independent learners, and the importance of reading closely becomes clear in the first two words of the Common Core K-12 Anchor Standards: *CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. The step-by-step process is effective. It includes a gradual release of responsibility, which gives students confidence, as well as practice. Step 1: Teacher directs/models. Step 2: Students collaborate. Step 3: Independent practice. Annotating text can be amazing for students who have problems focusing and paying attention. Annotating keeps students focused, because it requires them to stay actively involved with the text. Annotating makes it difficult for students to drift off. It also enables the teacher to easily monitor attention issues and reading progress, by checking on the student’s annotations.

Articles of Confederation Unit:

U.S. History & Civics

In this complete PDF you will find:

• Learning Goal Charts

• Interactive Notebook Items

• Charts/ Activities

• Readings

• Comic Strips

• Assessment

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Civics & US History Learning Goal Charts:

Have your students track

their learning!

Administrators always say to put the tracking in the student's hands, make sure you are keeping data, and never offer ways to help you do these! Well, that's where I come

in! I sat down with the test specs, essential standards, and standard breakdown sheet to create this awesome excel sheet that you could easily print & distribute so that

your students can track THEMSELVES! Plus this is also a great tracker for PLC's to ensure all students are learning the content you are on the same page. This has made

our team meetings go SO much smoother! This is my favorite tool in my classroom.

Students will track themselves in this unit standard by standard with the use of "I can" statements.

Instructions: Step By Step

1. Find the unit we are in right now.

2. Based on the work we have done thus far, please put an x in the box that best describes your knowledge of the "I can" statement.

3. Be sure to revisit this before your test to ensure that You've Got This Down! This is what the Civics team is creating your test off of. If you can move yourself to the

final column of "Yes, I can." Then you should score 80% or higher on the test. I will be checking on

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US History & Civics Driven Interactive Notebook style unit:

Right Side Goes in the brain

Left Side Comes back out

Includes: Processing, Engagement, Test Practice Items,& Formative Checks

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Articles of Confederation Fake Obituary:

Processing/ Checking for Understanding Activity
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Articles of Confederation Cornell Notes
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Articles of Confederation- Reading and reading comprehension questions
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Us History & Civics Driven mini unit:

Includes: Reading, Engagement,Activities & Comic Strips.

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