Declaration of Independence – Common Core Lessons & Activities

The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.



How to Use the Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Declaration of Independence - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Early Independence: Reading Informational Text
Acts of Parliament: Main Idea Organizer G
Sons of Liberty & The Boston Tea Party: Reading Informational Text
The Boston Massacre: Primary Source Analysis
"Paying the Excise Man": Comparison of Primary Sources
Loyalists, Neutralists, & Patriots: Point of View G
"Join, or Die": Primary Source Analysis
The British Perspective: Reading Informational Text G
Path to the Declaration: Chronological Events GO12
Mapping the Declaration: Summative Flowchart G
Words of Declaration: Vocabulary GO10
Authors of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Drafting the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Structure of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Key Philosophy: Reading Informational Text GO1
Key Declaration Excerpts: Primary Source Analysis G
List of Complaints: Summarizing Information G
Created Equal?: Writing
Influence of the Declaration: Reading Informational Text
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)